Were you at Langley? or Where?
Spent 12 years in New Orleans building, testing and transporting the External Tank to Kennedy Space Center and the other 24 at KSC integrating the External Tank with the boosters and orbiters and then rolling to the pad and doing the countdowns and launches. Awesome! Never to be seen again unfortunately. I wish everybody could have experienced at least one viewing of a launch from 3-4 miles away. Talk about the bass kicking you in the chest. WOW!! Those of us who knew where to stand for the best kick managed to gather occasionally between the VAB and Launch Control Center for the best kick. As the program wound down there were less and less folks to support launches so we were either in the control room or home sleeping off 12 hour shifts. We lived about 26 miles from the launch pad and the sliders would vibrate like crazy once the percussion reached to house about 2 minutes after lift off.