I thought it was pretty sweet. Maybe you actually had to be here and saw the real thing to enjoy We nabbed passes to the launch in Aug. We get to go behind the roadblock to get good pics :dance:

Ohh, and NASA is funded by the gov't. Not really a branch so to speak (at least I'm pretty sure). They can say godspeed if they want. What would you expect them to say.."don't blow up!"?