Screenshot of the rocket launch capture by Dan Whittaker of Carolina Weather Group on May 16, 2021. [courtesy Youtube/Dan Whitaker/Carolina Weather Group]
After a bout of the winds and clouds scrubbed NASA’s launch of a suborbital sounding rocket from Wallops’ Flight Center on the Eastern Shore over the past week, the launch finally took place Sunday evening.
And a number of lucky folks looking to the skies over the Outer Banks were able to spot it.
The Carolina Weather Group’s Dan Whittaker captured incredible video of the Black Brant XII sounding rocket carrying the KiNET-X payload from Wallops Island.
After more than a week of scrubbed launches, NASA employees and enthusiasts finally got to see the KiNet-X mission take to the skies Sunday night.
The launch from NASA s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia was originally scheduled for May 7 and was expected to be visible to people all across the East Coast of the United States and in Bermuda. But night after night, officials scrubbed the launch, and after a point, it seemed like it would never happen.
Mattapoisett resident Annette Ball DeMaris still held out faith and said she and her husband went to Ned s Point every night in hopes of seeing the launch with their own eyes. And when (the second) Sunday night rolled around, they were able to catch something pretty special during NASA s final effort to launch the rocket.
LAWRENCE (Mercer) First responders were applauded by a crowd on Business Route 1 in Lawrence Township after successfully freeing a 14-year-old bicyclist who was hit by an SUV on Sunday afternoon.
The boy was trapped for about 30 minutes while firefighters, police and EMT braced the vehicle from collapsing onto him, according to Dennis Symons of MidJersey.news, which was first to report the story. He had an angel on his shoulder, Lawrence police Lt. Joe Lech told New Jersey 101.5
Officers kept the boy calm as firefighters used airbags and rescue tools. MidJersey.news reported that the boy was able to use his cell phone to talk with his parents during the rescue.
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