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
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 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.