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FOOTPRINT OF THE MINOTAUR
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On September 22, 2005, a Minotaur rocket lit up the early evening desert sky shortly after its launch from Southern California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.  The multi-colored clouds from the rocket's exhaust had been twisted by upper atmospheric winds and were now back-lit by the sun, which had set less than an hour earlier behind the mountains to the west of Borrego Springs, California. 

 

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