Jim Howe Jupiter FL
Space Shuttle Atlantis Rises Toward Orbit on STS-132, Her Next-to-Last Flight
I stood across Indian River and watched what they said at the time was the last launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. I've been to a lot of launches, but for this one I was very nervous. Everything had gone so flawlessly up to that point, so as an engineer I was worried about Murphy's Law- and then she rose skyward on the straighest plume I think I have ever seen, thunderous, bright even in the blazing Florida sun; flexing her wings and screaming her mighty roar.
Space Shuttle Atlantis Rises Toward Orbit on STS-132, Her Next-to-Last Flight
I stood across Indian River and watched what they said at the time was the last launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. I've been to a lot of launches, but for this one I was very nervous. Everything had gone so flawlessly up to that point, so as an engineer I was worried about Murphy's Law- and then she rose skyward on the straighest plume I think I have ever seen, thunderous, bright even in the blazing Florida sun; flexing her wings and screaming her mighty roar.