We arrived home at just after 12 GMT today.
I'm gutted because the shuttle launched while we were on the tarmac at Orlando airport, just a minute or two before we took off.
We had been assigned seats in the centre section of the aircraft, despite trying to get window seats, and the captain said that if we looked out of the windows on the right of the aircraft we'd see the shuttle launch. We were taxiing at the time and despite desperately attempting to see out of the windows from our seats we could only see the orange glow from the Solid Rocket Boosters, not the actual rocket exhaust - while others got a clear view.
It was the last ever shuttle night launch, but there will be more shuttle flights until 2010 so I guess I'll have to go back again ;-)
The 7 3/4 hour flight back was quite bumpy most of the way and, being in cattle class, it was as much fun as eating sawdust.
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