It was a skyward double-header today with the lovely conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and the crescent moon just after sunset. What a gorgeous display, with no clouds to mar it here!
I sure wish we could have made the trip to Palmdale as well. We’re just 40 mins away, and mid afternoon landing, was the perfect time if only we gotten more advance warning.
It was a loud boom, at first I thought, earthquake, no, explosion, perhaps, it scared the heck out of me since I had no idea the shuttle would be landing out here.
That double boom is a very unique sound. I was in Florida a couple of years back at one of the theme parks when the shuttle announced her return. Most of the people didn’t know what it was but the few of who did gave a little round of applause for her safe return.
We were up near Santa Barbara for the weekend and the windows got to rattling.
And yeah, it was a lovely, glowing sunset, with the three celestial bodies shining so clear and brite in the dusky sky. Made us all feel Christmas-y.