2009 03 15 Space Shuttle Discovery Launch, Titusville, Florida

Wow - timing is everything - we are so lucky!

We've been staying in Titusville and were fortunate to be here and to get to see NASA launch the Shuttle Discovery. We scouted-out a great viewing spot across the Inter-coastal from Launch Pad 39-A and waited for the big event with a bunch of other folks. We were advised to grab out spot early as traffic would be horrible and all the prime spots would be snagged by the early birds - so we arrived about 3 hours before launch. It only took 6 minutes or so for the Shuttle to leave the Earth's atmosphere - but what a fantastic 6 minutes we had. Just an amazing feat! Traffic rumors were well founded - it took about 3 hours to travel 7 miles back to The Great Outdoors.

The experience was just tremendous and we get to scratch another item off our Bucket List!