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Launch Days, As Posted

Photos from regulars, customers, and one congregation. Tag us and Marge will print it and tape it by the register, which is the real feed.

Locals with coffee mugs in the diner parking lot watching a night launch
@wheatstatewatcher

T-minus nothing, baby. Third launch this month and Earl still jumps at ignition.

Three regulars at the window counter with slices of cherry pie, watching a launch
@dotfrom56

The fellas turned around for exactly one burn and then went right back to the Re-Entry Cherry. Priorities intact.

A church congregation in Sunday best waiting by a fence for a launch after the service
@firstprairiechurch

Fellowship hour relocated to the fence line. Marge sent out lemonade. The heavens declared, etc.

A farmer unloading a satellite crate from a pickup truck at the diner's back door
@hendersonfarmco

Dropped off the soil sensor sat on the way to the elevator. Marge signed for it and fed me. Total time: 40 minutes.

A hand-painted roadside billboard reading Pie and Orbits, Next Exit
@route56roadtrips

Saw this sign, assumed it was a joke, took the exit anyway. It was not a joke. 10/10 pie, 10/10 orbit.

A kid on a truck roof pointing at a launch contrail over a wheat field
@prairiemomof3

He asked if we could follow it. I said it's going around the whole world, bud. He said so are we, technically. Can't argue.