Whoppee!
 

I saw the international space station fly by one night last week. It was thrilling and I cried.

Cool !!
and funny too I wonder if you would be thrilled so much you would cry if you ever saw the space shuttle go up live at the launch pad :cool:
wonder if anyone else has done that? It is very awesome ! the vibrations rocks right threw you. of course too I can see it from my yard once it get high enough. But being right there is (or was) spectacular .

Yes
 

Yes I know that would make me cry. I cry for "Tuesdays" anymore - doesn't take much. Lucky you being that close!

oh that is too cool.

oh wow. the closest i've been is titusville. saw a night launch there once. it was overcast and what i remember was how the clouds all lit up suddenly when the shuttle went through them.

~ waves ~

when I was a kid I was giving out Halloween candy at my grandmother's house . She lived directly across the peninsula from the cape. An Apollo rocket took off... it lit the whole horizon and (in much quieter days) I could hear the rumble of the huge engines. At first I was scared but once Mom came out and told me what it was, I cried too. I saw history....if just a tiny piece. It made me feel small and insignificant ( as it should) and I understood, even as a kid, that there were so many things so much more vast than I could grasp.
Later on I used to lay in the field on cool,clear nights....the ones where you can see the milky way between the stars...and I would feel that smallness again. To this day I love that feeling. It is harder too grasp now and almost impossible to hold, but all the more precious for that.

"To this day I love that feeling. It is harder too grasp now and almost impossible to hold, but all the more precious for that."

Perfectly said! Describes how I feel about a lot of things in this life. :grouphug: