>Actually, in all seriousness, I think most of us around here would quite happily watch rockets being launched all day. Like you, I myself have that ambition to witness a rocket launch in person. I've been fascinated with all things space since the days when I was a kid and would cut clippings out of the newspaper about anything to do with rockets, and paste them in a scrapbook. I regret very much that I no longer have those books, as they were one of my most treasured possessions growing up.<br /><br />So, you are doing this not only for yourself but for all of us here at the SDC who live far and wide, and one day hope to follow in your footsteps to KSC and watch in awe.<<br /><br />This is exactly what creating the Space Flight site was all about. I've not got a degree in Aerospace Engineering, I'd run out of things to say after two minutes - if you asked me to talk for half an hour about the RCS, but like you I've got one hell of a passion, interest and respect for these Orbiters and the team that work on them. I've been wanting to do this site for years - but through other media work have only gained the position to do this now (and only just - in a revenue sense).<br /><br />I'm so going to need everyone's help, advise, criticisms, support, because we're approaching this for a different angle to most media sites. <br /><br />We're going to let the experts do the talking (the quotes) while the writers, write. We just want to do what we're good at, writing...portraying the passion we (all of us who hold an interest in space flight) have while being a forum for the meat of the information - the quotes we write around, from the people who can talk about what they're good at....making machines go upwards <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <br /><br />PS My favourite band is from New Zealand! (Don't know if you've heard of, or like, Shihad? They were called Pacifier for a while when trying to break the US, but reverted back to Shihad in 2004).