Lucky you! One thing I’ve never had the pleasure of doing is seeing a launch in person, even through binoculars.
And what a cool bus tour. My blue eyes are green with envy.
I am truly blessed, and wish you and yours could have joined us. I have seen several night launches from my home in Orlando, and one shuttle daytime launch from the Orlando airport terminal.
my sister and I had tickets for preferred location to watch a night launch of the shuttle, but it was scrubbed. bummer, big traffic jam for nothing.
Seeing a launch has been on my bucket list for years but I could never get down there. Even had two friends who worked on the Shuttle program who said I was welcome to stay with them at Cocoa but it never worked out. Then they killed the Shuttle program and he was laid off first - she was laid off shortly afterwards.
Some things just weren’t meant to be. *sigh*
This probe will be a cool one to keep tabs on. And we don’t have to wait NEARLY as long as we did to see Pluto up close. That was a LONG wait!