The Space Shuttle Discovery was supposed to launch on Tuesday of last week at about 2am. Two of our guys made it down there (it's about an hour drive from where we are) and they post-poned the launch 10 minutes prior to the launch. They re-scheduled it for Wednesday evening, I think. That one didn't go either.
SO - they re-scheduled the launch for Friday night at 11:59 and we decided to go. If it went - we wanted to be there. We got there about 45 minutes prior to the launch and there was lightning right above the launch pad. Well, it looked like there was lightning right above it. But - it could've been further out, I guess. We were sure they were going to post-pone it again. Next thing we knew, we were ten minutes in....five minutes in....then we were counting down.
I still get goose-bumps (sp?) when I talk about it. It was such an amazing sight. The video is a little long, as I was afraid to miss anything. I'm going to grab some pictures from the others and share those too......
Here's the video!! Enjoy!!
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