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I took this video with my bicycling video camera:
Wes took this video with his phone:
Today was an exciting day. The weather, which had been threatening to ruin everything all day, calmed down and cleared up enough that during the hold at T-00:09:00 during the go/no-go check the SRO said weather was go and Houston said go on the launch return site. Then with 31 seconds to go a switch failed that was supposed to indicate that one of the retractable arms was actually retracted. They broadcast the resolution as it was happening over the loud speakers and then they turned control over to Atlantis’ on-board computers and off it went. Nothing like a little bit of last minute drama. Also the picture of the lift-off above was the last picture that my memory card in my camera would hold. So that was lucky. It seems like everything that could have gone wrong today went right instead with the exception of drive back. It actually took about the same amount of time to get back to the hotel as it took me to fly from Austin to Orlando including the connection in DFW.