The Challenging Enterprise In Which We Endeavoured to Discover Atlantis (We Drove Past The District of Columbia)

Last week I spoke about the trip down to Florida and promised that this week I would tell about the launch.  Well they say a picture is worth a thousand word (which I suppose can be true sometimes) and I don't want to write a thousand words for each picture, so I will only write a few.

 Before we could see the flames we saw the exhaust.

 Clears the pad.

  Roll program.

 Mr. Cloud meet Mr. Space Shuttle.

 For 38 seconds I watched one of the most incredible things man has built ride a pillar of flame over 500 feet tall into space.  There is really nothing I can say that will let you understand what it was like to stand there and watch this.  If you where lucky enough to have seen a launch you know what I mean, if you haven't I am sorry.

(Photos taken by Sergey Galkin)