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Originally Posted by AndyK
I'm not jealous at all, no way, not in the slightest. Not even a little bit.
Neither am I bitter that when I was in Florida ten years ago the tour rep "forgot" to mention that the shuttle launch we all thought we'd missed had actually been delayed by a couple of days, so if the rep had got their finger out we could have gone to see it. 
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Ouch
Only about 30% of shuttles go up at the scheduled time, so we were very lucky that it did. We had cloud cover for a long time but that cleared before launch and the view was spectacular. The excitement in the few seconds before and after take-off was incredible.
Dave