As I am typing this blog, the countdown for the shuttle launch reads 12:34:14…and counting. I will just be one of the spectators who will be driving up northeast to see this once in a lifetime opportunity, but judging from my anxiety right now I felt like I am part of the crew. I just couldn’t sleep!
My husband and I have already prepared all the things that we need to bring since this morning. He actually made a checklist. We have all papers and tickets that NASA mailed to us few weeks before including an instruction advising us to double our travel time for traffic will be heavy on the way to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. And since normally it will take us two hours and fifty minutes to drive there, now we have to be on the road at 3 AM to be just in time for our parking time at 9 AM.
Me being so agile right now, I wonder what the seven-man crew is feeling at this time…at exactly 2 AM. At this point I don’t want to speculate. I just wish them the best on their trip in the outer space along with prayers for their safety. God speed Atlantis!
