Last spring, Robyn and I spend a weekend in St. Augustine Beach, Florida.  By chance, this coincided with the Launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery en route to the International Space Station. 


The evening of the launch, we went down to the beach.  I took pictures with my DSLR and Robyn took video with both her digital camera and my Nokia N95 8GB.  Immediately after the launch I posted the videos to my YouTube account.  The hits climbed very quickly into the hundreds but then tapered off to just a few every day.  As of yesterday, that number hit 1000! 


I am very pleased.  While our clip is not in the league of the Internet meme that "Groovy Dancing Girl", with over four million views, it is a respectable number.  More gratifying was this recent comment:

By far the best video I've ever seen of a shuttle launch- beautiful setting creates a perfect mixture of technology and nature. Nice camera work-no zooming in and out. You should have a lot more views.

There was some recent interest in the video because of the most recent Discovery launch. For better and worse, the space shuttle fleet is being retired.