Monday, July 18, 2011

The Last Shuttle Launch

We finally made it! We saw the shuttle launch, the very last one there will ever be. We made it to Cocoa Beach/Canaveral Beach by 6:00 am, and waited patiently for 1) the clouds to clear, and 2) the actual launch scheduled for 11:30. #1 never happened. #2 did, about two minutes late. It was very exciting, even though we had to watch it play peek-a-boo with the clouds.

The glowing cone shows just above the distant buildings.

High up in the clouds, it will soon disappear from our view. We couldn't see the separation stage.

Dennis and Wendy had flown out for a quick vacation, and they met up with us at our house a couple of days before we left for Florida. We all drove down together and we had a wonderful time with them. We spent the rest of the weekend traveling up the coast. I'll tell more about in in the next post.

2 comments:

joyce said...

Looks just like it did when the kids & I saw a launch years ago from Vero Beach! Glad you had a good time!

Carol Noren Johnson said...

Glad you were able to see this and how fun to be with another couple!

The first time you tried in April, however, you did get couponing done at our house, even the the launch was canceled--the constant worker that you are!

Carol and Herb