Atlantis Has Launched
Monday, November 16th, 2009 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tourmalineAtlantis has launched, it all went excellently and totally by-the-book. I watched the launch online on NASA TV, I've seen a few launches now but ZOMG they don't get routine. Just so exciting, waiting for everything to happen like it should. And then when it lifts off, it's like you can hardly believe the time has come, everything is going perfectly like it should but it's still amazing. It's like when you're a little kid and it's suddenly Christmas Day, well not quite suddenly, but after all the work and the build-up and you can hardly believe it's really happening even though you know it will happen.
The NASA Tweetup has been taking place yesterday & today, so my Twitterfeed has been rather busy. Sad that I can't be there, it would have been so awesome, meeting all the space tweeps and seeing the launch. And this is Atlantis' penultimate mission, there are only five more shuttle missions after this one :'( But let's hope they are all as awesome as they've been in the recent past.
The NASA Tweetup has been taking place yesterday & today, so my Twitterfeed has been rather busy. Sad that I can't be there, it would have been so awesome, meeting all the space tweeps and seeing the launch. And this is Atlantis' penultimate mission, there are only five more shuttle missions after this one :'( But let's hope they are all as awesome as they've been in the recent past.
