It never gets old

As many of you might guess, I have several opinions about NASA and the way it’s run, and not all of them are positive. But I’ll still stop pretty much anything I’m doing to watch a shuttle launch. It’s absolutely spectacular.

I watched Atlantis go up tonight with my boys, who were both spellbound. This is a real spaceship.

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