We drove out to the Cape to see the launch of the shuttle last night. It was incredible, and I’m so glad to have been able to show it to the kids.
We can watch the launches from our front porch (we’re not that far from the Cape), but we really just see a plume once the rocket or shuttle is high in the sky. The nighttime launch at the Cape was so much brighter than I anticipated–a massive fireball ascending.
I wish you could have been there, too. :-)
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any pics of the launch ??? :-)
Unfortunately not. We didnt’ even take a camera. She should have, though. It was really beautiful.
The few pics I saw online were indeed amazing. Looked a little scary, too, if you didn’t know what it was. I’m glad someone saw it in person–now I know it wasn’t made up. :)
I saw a nighttime launch years ago – 1997, I think. It was amazing. I’ve seen one or two daytime launches since then (I think it was one, the second one got scrubbed), which were of course amazingly amazing, but they did not have the “artificial sunrise” aspect of a night launch.
That is really cool, I am sure that made a lasting memory for your children.
I almost got to watch it from a plane window the night before, but it was scrubbed :-( The timing would have been perfect, but I was on the other side of Florida.
Ooh Fantastic! We did the whole tourist thing there a few years ago, and there was a launch due to go up the week we were there, but unfortunately it was postponed, so we missed it.