2010-06-22
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photo 14:23:00
From Vandenburg AFP’s photo gallery: “A Delta II rises above the clouds as Staff Sgt. Eric Thompson freefalls over Lompoc June 7. The instructor with the 532nd Training Squadron planned his skydive to coincide with the launch carrying the Italian Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed Satellite”.
Unfortunately, the site doesn’t have a good way of linking to the image (in fact, I suspect the page link above will stop working eventually), which has led to the picture doing the rounds labelled as a Shuttle, rather than rocket, launch. It’s still pretty spiffy, though.
