I was at the Cape for the launch of STS-93, which, because of the orbit we wanted, had to go at night. It got scrubbed two nights in a row (one at T minus 6 sec), so eventually my boss decided to go home again and gave me her VIP pass. Very very cool, watching a shuttle night launch from just 3 miles away.

I recall boarding a flight the next morning in Orlando, with one of my colleagues, who, because of his membership in the ops team had the then-equivalent of a blackberry on his hip, reporting from two rows behind me, (and with 6-10 other project people within earshot) that the booster had fired correctly. "We have a mission," he said.

Otherwise, it would have meant going home to compete for space on the moving van they would have had to back up to our doors to haul away all the resumes.

"And this ... is a piece of Synergy." --Kellnerin
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