For the grown up in the room
For parents
Kids mode, a saved town, bedtime for alerts, and nothing that asks a child to make an account.
Reading voice
Kids mode is the default
Plain words for a seven year old. Turn it off when you want the fuller account. There are no kid accounts and no grown up accounts.
Outside at night
Night red
Dims the page to red so bright white and blue do not wash out your night vision. Saved on this device.
Where you watch from
Watching from Centennial, Colorado. This stays in this browser. Nothing is sent to a Liftoff Club account, because there is not one.
Bedtime
Quiet hours for alerts
The countdown still works. Browser alerts stay silent between these hours, in the timezone of the town you set. Your phone’s own calendar alarms are separate.
Alerts
A nudge, not a promise
Alerts fire while this tab is open, and on phones that allow alerts from an installed web app. A sleeping phone may stay quiet. The calendar feed is the reliable reminder.
This browser does not offer notifications. Subscribe to the launch calendar instead.
Saved rules
On a phone
Add Liftoff Club to the home screen
The rocket C icon is the app icon. A home screen icon opens the club without the browser bar. iOS delivers launch alerts only after that install.
Phone alerts
One hour before, and at liftoff
Kids mode is on, so phone alerts stay off. A parent turns kids mode off, then allows alerts. Times in the alert are Mountain Time.
Privacy
What this browser keeps
Town, kids mode, quiet hours, companies you follow, space words you open, and which alerts already fired. Phone alerts, when a parent allows them, store a browser address so a launch time can be sent. No name and no email. Weather and city search go straight from your browser to Open-Meteo.