I watched this take off live from Japan.

It was amazing to see a rocket take off from a small launch pad in Japan.     It was there bird taking a NASA sat called GPM into space.     The bird will be able to pinpoint so many facts about water on our planet.    It is the core sat for a very large project that one day will help our science understand just about everything that has to do with water on the planet.    Many more sats have to be launched to finish the project.     It was cool to see it launch.