On July 8, the last space shuttle launched from Kennedy Space Center, off Space Coast Florida. I was the only home when this happened, and I eagerly raced outside to look up into the sky to see if I could see the shuttle. Unfortunately there were too many clouds for me to see, so I resorted to channel 6 news :(

Some of my favorite memories of my childhood are space shuttle launches! Both the house I lived in as a child, and our current home had great views from the driveway and backyard! My favorite were the night launches; watching the booster engines come off and drift through the sky like brake lights from a car.

Here we are watching a space shuttle in 1998! John Glenn was on this trip!