BOOM BOOM

That's the sound I heard not too long after 5AM when I was looking at the news about the shuttle landing in Edwards AFB. It suprised me since I remember sonicbooms from shuttle being much louder (I used to live half an hour or so away from Edwards AFB where a bit less than half of the shuttle missions have landed). It just sounded like someone knocking loudly on my living room window. Plus I enjoyed watching on tv my favorite part of a shuttle landing which is the deploy of the parachute to slow down the shuttle on the runway. I hope I can go see a landing live again some time in the next few years.

Anyways, I hope in the future if any new launch/landing site is constructed it should be in the Mojave Desert of California where the weather is much more stable and clear compared to Cape Canaveral.

i watched discovery take off. i should have been able to see columbia land from my apartment; but i didn't.

as far as sonic booms go, i used to work at my old summer camp near colorado springs. once, when a plane at the air force academy broke the sound barrier (a common occurrence), we told the little 5-year-olds we were on a camping trip with that it was gunfire--there were hunters trying to shoot bears in the woods before they reached our campsite.

one girl cried for hours. sissy.