Rocket launch at 8:15

sweet, I had the honor of watching a space shuttle launch off the coast of Florida back in the 90's and it ranks up there with one of the coolest things I've ever seen.  

I was on a Navy Destroyer then and being a Fire Controlman I immediately ran inside and started to track it with our main missile fire control radar and it was the coolest thing I've ever locked onto.  I lost it at around 120k feet, and was doing all kinds of stuff to try and get it back and one of my buddies said.  "do you think it's a good idea to be hitting the space shuttle with all that RF" and I said, "oh yeah, probably not a good idea"  lol

I'm disappointed I missed it.  I'm a huge science and space geek.  I hadn't heard about it until I saw your post, and it looks like we would have been able to see it fairly well.

I got to see a shuttle launch at Kennedy in the early 90's too.  It was a really cool experience!

I am so bummed I missed this. I had no idea it was happening and was actually outside at 8:15 p.m. last night (I'm not typically hanging around outside at that hour).