This morning at 4:30am woke up from a sound nights sleep to the noise my cell phone alarm singing. Quickly we had our first cup of coffee and ran out of the house to go to the top of the 65 ft tall bridge connecting the Kennedy Space Center with the mainland of Titusville, FL. Just a few minutes before 6am two sonic booms rang out shaking the souls of the thousands of other crazy people on the great span of the bridge. We witnessed the space shuttle Atlantis making its final landing at the Kennedy Space Center. This was the end of USA’s shuttle program. Just moments before its landing, the International Space Station, glowing like a bright white star, few overhead to bid the shuttle fair well. What a moment. God Bless America!

NASA Photo of Atlantis July 21, 2011 landing.