this was a weird event in my child hood. by the mid-80's i had witnessed numerous day and night launches in my back yard in central florida. it always impressed my how easy it was to see something in the air, that was actually launching off of the north east coast of florida. obviously, the entire planet to some extent remembers this, but its strange from a floridian male's point of view. we all wanted to be astronauts... until this happened.