So was anyone (not in Florida) able to see it live? I tried, but I just couldn’t get high enough and far enough away from the lights. Plus it was pretty cloudy here last night… Maybe next time!
[semijack]Fools almost everybody. The thing is the US is a sort of trapezoid with the west coast running southeast to northwest and the east from southwest to northeast.
Reno, NV is west of Los Angeles. In fact it’s west of Santa Barbara just a tad.[/semijack]
My husband saw it from North Carolina!
Ditto, and it was a morning launch. (I could make out the contrail when it was going up, but not the shuttle itself.)
No. I had the voice trans. from NASA on and the talk of weather and our rain here at the house suggested it would not go that night.
We were coming home from a previous commitment in Mt. Dora (west of Orlando) and was on a long rural road when it went off and MAN, what a beautiful sight! The entire sky to the east was lit before it cleared the tree line and we watched through the booster separation and then off over the horizon.
Beautiful.
Update:
Woo hoo!
I saw the launch Saturday night from the comfort of my 7th floor hotel room (I had the foresight to ask for an east-facing room).
Quite impressive, indeed!