I’ve lived in Central Florida for most of my life and have always been a huge fan of the space center. I cannot even count how many shuttle and rocket launches I have witnessed. Some I’ve seen from up close and others from a distance. For this launch my brother, a NASA employee, was able to snap a site pass for the turn basin which is just forward of where the press sits. I’ve never been to the turn basin and it is closer than most of the other spots I have been so I was really looking forward to the launch. It is too bad the launch was scrubbed due to the weather, especially after we’d been sitting in the sun for a few hours waiting, but we are going to go up tomorrow and try again. But until then I figured I would post some of the shots I took today while we were waiting…

The view from where we were sitting through a telephoto lens at 400mm.The orbiter (i.e. shuttle) is on the right hand side of brownish external fuel tank you can see peeking up over the pad super structure.

The Airstream RV that is used to transport the astronauts to the pad. This RV has a LOT of history behind it… It has been used for this task for decades.

This lady stood up in front of me when I was about to take a shot of the fire truck and I decided the composition would be more interesting focused on her. So I quickly re-focused and snapped the shot.

A weird angle view of the Vehicle Assembly Building. We were not in a good position to get a great head on shot of the flag and meatball (i.e. NASA logo) but I figured this looked interesting enough to post.

The shuttle is scheduled to try again tomorrow around 6:30pm. We will be going back up with cameras in hand to see her off. Lets hope the weather holds out tomorrow so we can have a beautiful launch!! I will of course post any good images I shoot at the launch once I get home tomorrow night.

Oh, another thing I should mention… I love NASA! While on-site I bought two launch coins, a mission sticker, a patch, a mission hat, and a mission T-Shirt for $32! If I were at Disney I would have spent at least $80 on all that stuff. Seeing as how the government is already screwing us over on taxes, at least some government agencies are still pricing their gear at modest rates! GO NASA!