Where Did You Watch Atlantis Take-Off?
For Aviation fans this was a very historical event. The FINAL Space Shuttle launch. Atlantis. STS-135.
I had set up my DVR to tape the launch but still wanted to see it on TV live with other
people. I was at work and our Co-worker cafeteria has a nice wall mounted flat screen TV. Usually its Maury or Jerry Springer or Who Wants To Be a millionaire on that screen. My thinking was maybe for the last flight they will actually do a SPECIAL REPORT and show the flight. But checking Facebook on my phone I was hearing it was in a hold but about 11:16 then saw it was ON!! Jumped in an elevator and arrived just as FOXNEWS broke into MY9 programming with 2 minutes to go. THEN at :31 seconds it was halted. WTF?? But after a check on something the count continued and at 0:00 the engines fired up and off into the wild blue wonder they flew!! Always a magnificent sight!! And it was nice to see lots of people in the lunch room stop what they were doing and watch the launch and talk about it. That was very cool but too bad it took the LAST one to get this attention.
I dont know, its 2011 and growing up as a child of the 60s and a big SCiFi fan I figured we would be well on our way to other galaxies by now!!
Oh well I could dream.
Godspeed Atlantis.