Here we are waiting for launch:
Then, right at dusk, 3...2...1...Blast off! (That's the fire lighting the sky...not the setting sun!)
And there it is!
It looks like the shuttle is taking a crooked path...that's just an optical illusion as the shuttle moved upwards and eastwards out over the Atlantic ocean. The setting sun created some really cool colors on the smoke clouds.
When the shuttle was out of sight and the smoke trail began to break up...the smoke clouds turned red, white, and blue. Pretty fitting and very cool to witness!
9 comments:
Amazing!!! We took our kids to a night Launch in Florida 2 yr ago. It was incredible!! So glad you guys got to see one.
That looks so cool.
Wow! That must have been a sight!
Oh that is so cool! I love how the clouds turned red, white, and blue! How patriotic! What fun to get to witness it first hand!
That is something I have always wanted to experience!
Awesome!!! I'm so glad everything went through. The weather changed on us and so we weren't able to see it up close....but...the next day it launched and we saw it from miles away. It is spectacular even at that location!! What a great experience to be so close....LOUD!! :)
Wow... not many people get to experience that or see anything even close to as cool...I bet the boys loved it!
We had so much fun with you guys! Thank you so much for the card and gift. We are truly grateful that we got to spend our vacation with such wonderful people! Hopefully we will get to meet up again! I created our blog so that we can stay in touch! Hope that all is well, and tell the boys that we said Hello! http://schwilkfamily.blogspot.com/
/wow, fun times. bet it was amazing in person!
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