Couple of years back Mrs R and I were in FL on our winter golf break when we heard on the radio that a Shuttle launch was planned for that night. So leeged it over to the Merritt Island causeway very cool, cept a weird thing the noise never reached us (we would have been about seven or so miles from the pad). Many moons ago (‘bout 360 of em) I was fortunate enough to be abole to attend the launch of Apollo 17 (the last moon launch and the only night launch of a Saturn 5) Let me tell you, that was IMPRESSIVE and the noise ‘kin ell…every fibre of your being was rattled (although this was from much closer almost alongside the VAB). Apparently the glow of the launch was visble from as far away as Virginia.