I just observed the explosion of the first Delta 3 launch from Canaveral AFS at +1min 20sec into flight. I was watching from my backyard, which is over 40 mi from the launch site. A very good initial burn, but then at SRB sep it looked like a firecracker. I wasn't sure until I saw the TV coverage if it was truly an explosion, since there appeared (for a long time afterwards too) to be some kind of upper stage boosting downrange (it could have been a long-burning fragment though). The trajectory appeared correct for such a launch--guess we'll have to wait and see. -- ============================================== Bill Moore wmoore@spacey.net Melbourne, Florida USA "Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them." --Jules Verne