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My wife and I just watched Discovery last week. It was a 0621 launch and about 0515 we left the house and drove up to the Canaveral Causeway and found a nice spot to back the truck up to off the road. We joined about 5000 of our closest friends who had the same idea. We could see the Shuttle pretty clearly as it sat on the pad all lit up with spotlights. And the most miraculous part about the whole deal was that it launched exactly on time. That was the last of the scheduled nighttime launches. Hell we could see rocket launches from Daytona, 60 miles north no matter the cloud cover. A local radio station has the play by play.