my cousins
we had lunch at this little place off highway 520. we all had something fried. they had some shrimp. i had some gator. pictured are lowell, alice, jill, and me waiting for the fried goodness to arrive. this was our first time getting together after they delayed the sunday morning launch.
we met up again on monday after they finally got the fuse lit on endeavour. we were much more tired the second time around after being up for two nights and not getting all the sleep we needed in between. nevertheless, it was good to hang out with family. lowell, alice, and i took a drive down florida 1A1 (atlantic avenue) from cocoa beach past patrick air force base and into a bit of satellite beach. lowell pointed out what was around back in days of nasa when the moon landing was still the goal. many of the places he showed me i’ve been reading about in the right stuff. as with all beach locations, it has been built up much more than it was when alan shepherd and john glenn were being jettisoned into space on rockets.
i’ve uploaded a few photos of the launch that morning to my flickr account tagged “sts-130.” the video turned out the best on my attempts to capture the launch, but those are what i have. of course, nasa has the best pics in the world for these things. incredible angles of the launch. nasa’s collection of photos of the launch, which again doesn’t do the actual site justice. i credit nasa with this image of the launch which the closest i could find to how it actually looked if you had been there. it comes from nasa’s site, but i couldn’t seem to locate it again for a link.
