Well, I spent a few minutes, yesterday, on the beach of the atlantic Ocean, about half way down the coast of Florida (just outside the Ocean Grill, MsSmileee) watching the space shuttle Atlantis burn its way into a bright, bright blue, cloudless sky.
Saw the solid rocket boosters detach and fall back to the waiting ships below.
The weather is pretty much perfect at the moment - just waiting for it to finish colling down for the Winter - so that we can turn off the air conditioning (and drive the car with the windows open).