“Busy is good” is a mantra of sorts for Craig Bailey, veteran visual journalist and a man whose coverage of all things space practically launches off the pages of FLORIDA TODAY.
Amid the ever-growing number of launches from the Space Coast, the intersection of the space biz and life on Earth in Brevard doesn’t escape him.
So, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:04 a.m. May 21, lighting up Bailey’s photo, he didn’t see just a launch.
First, he saw that “The tugboats are illuminated by the dawn’s early light,” he said.
“But we’ve got the beginnings of the jellyfish effect going on here, too.” (For those not familiar with that reference, the jellyfish phenomenon occurs during the few minutes just before sunrise or just after sunset when the ground is dark, but sunlight is present in the furthest reaches of the atmosphere.)
On beyond that, though, Bailey saw just one of countless examples of down-to-Earth work in a space-fueled place
Busy? Good. That’s his take.
“The tugboats docked in the Kennedy Space Center Turning Basin had just delivered two large storage tanks,” he said.
“They’re just another physical symbol of the work going on along the Space Coast.”
This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Photo of Week confirms it’s busy on the Space Coast. And yes, that’s good
Reporting by Britt Kennerly, Florida Today / Florida Today
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