Shuttle

For two nights I have gotten up, dressed warm and sat in the cockpit. No, it’s not insomnia, it’s the space shuttle. The space center is about 250 miles away but I had heard that you could see the launch even from here. The first night the launch was scrubbed because of high winds but last night, at 4:14 AM it was a go! There in the distance, a red streak appeared, it looked like a red flare shot into the night as it rose above the lights of the city. Within a minute, the twin boosters separated and a new star rose into the night sky. How cool.

PS. Our new telefoto lens. (Hee,Hee)

PPS. OK, the pict. was lifted from the NASA website.