Posted
7/14/2011 11:51:00 PM
by Douglas
What an adorable bookend to the end of an
era in American space travel, and national pride:
Thirty years ago, the first space shuttle launched into the stratosphere. Chris Bray and his father Kenneth watched -- and took a picture. Then last Friday, the shuttle Atlantis took its final trip. Again, the Bray men were there. And again, the two snapped a photo to capture the moment.
The side-by-side photos, which are up on Chris Bray's Flickr photostream, immediately went viral on the Web.
Well that's just pretty durn cool. And at the same time, kinda sad.