Great post!
I watched the launch too. I always watch the ones that have some segnificance to them like this one. I explained to my boy, (he watched with me) that when this probe finally makes it to Pluto he will be graduating high school. His eyes got big and he said," That's a long ways." Then he looked at me again and said, "And you'll be real old then." I had to wrestle him to the ground for that one.
I remember as a kid watching the Apollo launches and the moon landing. What sticks in my mind all these years is that "beep" noise when they would broadcast the communications between the astronauts and the space center.
I was sitting in a NCO club in Schweinfurt Germany eating breakfast watching the launch when the Challenger went up in flames. Hard to believe it's already been twenty years ago that happened. I kind of get emotional thinking about that one and when President Reagan gave a speech about it on TV expressing his sorrow.
