Comment by botiomez

4 days ago

After spending years as a kid seeing footage of these things on TV outside living outside of America, I finally got to see it live!

Brought my camera and got a few good pics too! Very invested in this entire mission!

Someone behind me kept whisper crying "That's it! Go baby, go baby go" like it was his child and was encouraging them on. Very emotional, loved it.

Also when that engine sparked it really hit me just how many hours of deep thought and technical innovation goes not only into getting us as humanity to that point, but also the crews at NASA planning, building and executing these missions

I watched the livestream and at one point (several points, i guess) they cut to the crowd watching and the thing that stood out the most to me was that every single person was staring at their phone pointed at the rocket. Nevermind the fact that better quality videos will live forever on the internet available to anyone who wants to watch them, but I cannot fathom having that opportunity and not watching it with my own eyes with my full attention.