 
Rocket Trails Stage Separation
Pentax 6x7 camera w/90 mm lens @ f/4 on Kodak VC 400
photo by Bill and Sally Fletcher
- Various tests are conducted in the upper atmosphere utilizing rockets and missiles launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The spectacular displays left in the evening sky can sometimes be seen from all over the Southwestern United States
This set of photos were taken October 1999 from the Santa Monica Mountains about 80 miles away. This first photo shows a stage separation and exhaust plume. The next photo shows the prismatic cloud of exhaust that is scattering sunlight in the upper atmosphere.
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