Too bad. I was once down in Port Canaveral overnight with my family, waiting to board a cruise ship in the morning. at dinner the waitress told us that there was going to be a “rare” night launch of the space shuttle. They had scrapped a couple of launch times due to weather and were getting sort of desperate so night it was. Around midnight we went out to see what’s what. I had low expectations, after all we were miles away from the launch site. Holy cow, was I wrong. It was just like daytime when that rocket lit up. Really cool to be out there at midnight and see it look like it was noon. I really didn’t appreciate the sheer magnitude of the explosive force in those rockets until I saw that.
I saw the Shuttle that broke up on re-entry go up at night from Patrick AFB. It was amazing!...
Sounds cool. I saw my first rocket launch last week, a Falcon 9 out of Vandenberg, it was impressive - but the Shuttle, with those huge solid fuel boosters, must have been quite a sight!