I'm up at 2 am and at the Press Center by 3. I watch the Astronauts get into their van for the trip to the launch pad. Everything looking great. The countdown goes past minus nine minutes. Now I'm getting excited.
Photographers start to get ready.
I can't believe I'm going to see a launch. The sky behind the launch pad is beginning to get light. Sunrise is 15 minutes after launch. Night turns to day as it lifts off the pad. I'm three miles away and the sound is deafening.