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my moment was pretty cool I was a co-op

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I was coming out of here out of college

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and it was my time to see my first space

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shuttle launch and the really cool thing

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about it is that it was gonna be the

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first space shuttle launch to the

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Russian space station Mir now we had

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never done that before so here I am a

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young kid out of college and a couple of

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us coops decided we got to go see this

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launch in a really cool place now back

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then pretty much everywhere was open so

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we found these big metal facilities

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structures and we decided we're gonna

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climb up so we climbed up to these

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things we were like then the third floor

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we were higher than the LCC we're

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actually right next to the LCC and so we

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got a great view of the shuttle and so

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here I am waiting I'm thinking okay it's

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gonna be like a little firecracker no

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big deal and they said go and you first

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thing you heard was you saw that smoke

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come up and the shuttle was been hidden

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right under the smoke then it slowly

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comes out and then I'm thinking like wow

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so you know I'm already like whoa but

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then it got even better all of a sudden

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I look out in the horizon and I'm seeing

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the water stop bouncing and shaking not

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just one but multiple waves you could

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actually for the first time I like

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visually see sound waves they had

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cranked up that engine so loud there was

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just waves coming over the water and as

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you creeped over the water hit the trees

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and then the trees actually bent

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backwards and has that came through you

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could see the dust kind of coming off

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the ground and then it hit the facility

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now since we're not in a building

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wearing this little Ricky geek little

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metal thing it starts shaking like crazy

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and I'm just there like all in the

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moment like it was so cool and that was

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my first spot of shuttle launch and the

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amazing thing about I found that later

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is it it says they've never been the