The Space Shuttle Discovery launched tonight. Since its course took it along the East Coast, it was theoretically visible all up the coast. Ben and I wanted to see it and had been waiting since Thursday night when the launch was first scheduled.
We watched the launch live at 7:43, waited a few minutes then rushed outside and looked and listened. Unfortunately, there was a pretty good cloud cover so we had no chance of seeing it. I was hoping for at least a glow in the clouds, but I don't think that was possible given the height. We did hear something that sounded like a large jet engine which went on for a good 3o seconds or so; that may have been the shuttle. We also heard a couple of other jets that were shorter in duration and clearly planes.
So we may have heard it, I don't know. I'm not sure if you can even hear it at from the ground at that point in the flight.
Still, it was fun to watch the launch and good to see that Ben was interested.
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