I watched Jason 3 (as I recall) launch from Providence Landing Park. It was a great spot and filled with fanatical SpaceX employees. Here's the address:699 Mercury Avenue, Lompoc, CA 93436and a link to google maps:
Quote from: SeriousCallersOnly on 01/11/2017 08:45 pmI watched Jason 3 (as I recall) launch from Providence Landing Park. It was a great spot and filled with fanatical SpaceX employees. Here's the address:699 Mercury Avenue, Lompoc, CA 93436and a link to google maps:Please shorten the Google link, as below: Google can find it without the rest of the link, and the long link messes up the forum formatting.https://www.google.com/maps/place/699+Mercury+Ave,+Lompoc,+CA+93436/
As has been stated before, a dream viewing location would be the Amtrak parking lot at the end of Ocean Ave. <sigh>Can someone recall the exact spot where Ocean is closed on launch days... is it the Arguello intersection?
Pretty sure that is on-base on the road down to Surf Beach (35th Street).
That's west across the mouth of the Santa Ynez River river on the hills side near 35th and Taco.
I decided to try this spot:https://goo.gl/maps/qceYVPTUbHU2Will post a report later on how I like it.
So the Surf Beach station is always closed for SpaceX launches? That would be such a great place. I tried to watch the Jan 2016 launch from there but got kicked out in the middle of the night. I did see the early morning Delta 4 launch the next month from there, with a bunch of Rocketdyne employees. Are there any good spots further south near the eastern edge of the base?