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When I was in the Air Force, I worked at Cape Canaveral and was fortunate enough to see many rockets fly. Felt like a kid with a new bike every time one went up.

The most memorable one was watching Skylab launch. Those Saturn V motors literally rocked my world! I guess that kinda dates me, huh?



All I can say is you lucky SOB!! I did get lucky enough to watch a satellite once about 15 years ago out of Cape Canaveral, and while I'm sure it was a peashooter next to the Hammer Of God that the Saturn V was(talk about burning a hole in the Ozone!), it was still impressive as all get out! I can still remember it as if it were yesterday. We all piled off of the tourbus onto the side of the roadway, about 3 miles from the launchpad, and sat and waited a while, and then we saw this big white thing going up, and maybe a good full 5 seconds after it lifted off, and was probably about 5-10000 feet up, there was this THUNDERCLAP that just took your breath away, as the sonic boom from the liftoff finally hit, and after that it was just WIDE OPEN THROTTLE all the way up! I honestly hope somehow, someday, I can take my kids there and have them experience it just the way I did, as well as the IMAX movie of the shuttle liftoff!

Godspeed Atlantis!