fishbrains - Bret Fisher

NASA’s Shuttle launch of STS-117, the flight of Atlantis to further build the International Space Station, ended up launching Friday 3 hours after TechEd ended.  We rushed to get there and were within 40 miles when it launched.  It was still amazing from that distance.  My bad pictures are here, but a much better look is from 3 miles out (min safe distance) over at dro!d’s slideshow.