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I grew up with the space shuttles. Living in Florida, the space shuttles were always a big part of Floridian culture. I remember watching every space shuttle launch I could. Online and in person.
Thursday, the day before the final shuttle launch, we went to Kennedy Space Center to see space shuttle Atlantis, the final space shuttle to launch from Kennedy Space Center. I took pictures, I'll post them up when I upload them. Space shuttle Atlantis was on launch pad 39A, launch pad 39B was being destroyed. Everyone was taking pictures of Atlantis.
The day of the launch, everyone was worried that it would take off. But within 5 minutes of the launch time the clouds opened up, allowing Atlantis into space. We went out to the beach to see our last space shuttle launch. But the cloud coverage was horrible. So we saw nothing. All we heard was the separation of the rocket boosters, they sounded like thunder.
When watching the launch replay on TV it was really sad for us. The shuttles would be gone.
A news anchor said ," NASA plans to launch a rocket to the ISS this fall, and they plan to have people back up in space by 2014." If this is true, I really hope NASA steps up the pace and starts sending people deeper into space.
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