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Part of the lag was due to updating the DOM constantly to add to the "Launch Log." I made a minor performance optimization and that part of it is working a lot faster now.

Very true. 1957 is the starting point because the visualization only shows rockets that went to orbit (or that were intended to, at least); suborbital flights are not included.

I asked an astronomer friend of mine to look at the specs and got a small list of advantages: -No atmosphere. Seeing would still be a considerable factor; getting 1 arcsecond resol…

Terrific suggestions. I'm a bit lukewarm on the branding (it looks nice, but I don't know enough about marketing to really give it a fair assessment), but their redesign of the sit…