Larry waiting for the shuttle launch at New Smyrna Beach !
We went to the beach to see the shuttle launch with Mike & Paula. Mike drove and we arrived right at three o'clock. We were able to park right on the beach. We set up our chairs and killed sometime people watching. We bought some ice cream treat and walked the beach. A bird came right up behind Paula ad tried to steal my granola bar right out of the side pocket of my cooler. If she had not been sitting there they would have drug it off. As it was they still torn a hole in one end of the wrapper. The birds were pretty smart and very aggressive. I guess they have to be to learn to survive on the beach!
Everybody on the beach, and they were a lot of people, began to turn their chairs to face south down the beach at about 4:30 or so. Mike and Paula had their laptop but could not find a network. Other people had their radios and informed the crowd that the launch had been delayed by three minutes. We anxiously keep waiting for something to happen and finally we all saw the rocket take off The brightest and biggest thing was the fire behind it. It was very, very cool. The picture below is just on of the pictures we took. The neatest thing to me was probably after another second or two after this picture was taken that we hear the sonic boom! In fact, we saw the boosters disconnect and fall before we heard the sound! It was a cool thing to be able to witness!
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