History in the sky

Before I forget, because Craig wanted this in Grant's "baby book," with his very own 2 year old eyes, Grant saw the Ares 1-x launch today.

Since we live in central Florida we have the luxury of watching shuttles and rockets launch, while standing in our driveway. We actually have a really nice view once they are 10 miles up or so.

Today (well, it's after midnight now, so technically yesterday), a few blocks from home, getting onto the 408E, you could see the large firey contrails of the new shuttle as it headed towards the atmosphere. This one was unmanned, as it was a test launch...but it is likely the key to the future of our NASA shuttle program.

Grant was sitting patiently in his car seat as we pointed the shuttle out to him...watching history in the making.