I was thinking about driving up to watch it (who knows how many night launches are remaining?) but couldn’t work up the gumption for it. Patricia was up in Orlando yesterday, and could have stayed later, but I would have had to drive up and meet her somewhere, and then we’d have come back separately, and gotten in late. But I did see it from the house (first time I’ve ever done that). Now I know where the trajectory is, and where to look the next time, if it’s clear. But I doubt if I’d see anything past SRB burnout in the daytime. Even at night, the main engines were pretty dim from 150 miles away. Though, of course, it was also heading northeast, away from us.

Jonathan Gewirtz took a shot of it from downtown Miami (which is actually a couple hundred miles away, being fifty miles or so south of me). The Hubble flight should be a better view, since it will launch due east.