Second time for STS-134 launch

After the first attempt was scrubbed, we had to go back for the 2nd attempt. This was a morning launch, so we had to get there early! Some of us slept in our little chairs until the sun came up. Launch was at 8:58. Unfortunately the day was cloudy, so we lost sight of the shuttle pretty quickly. Kind of disappointing but still an experience.

Lost in the cloud cover!

Checking out the lunar explorer.

Last Space shuttle launch(or not!)

A few months ago I found out that there was supposed to be one last shuttle launch, and it was going to be a night launch on my birthday. So, since I had not yet gone to see a launch, I decided I wanted to go. It wasn't easy to get tickets, there was a lottery, but I was selected and we got tickets. They postponed it once, so it's not my birthday and not a night launch either, then after we spent most of a day at Cape Canaveral, it was postponed again. We decided it was fortunate we lived fairly close, since there were people visiting from other places who would not be able to come back for the launch.