Not wanting to sound negative, but really hope it goes ahead for you. They do have a tendancy to be called off last minute as we found out last August. We didnt know there was a launch when we were there and found out at the airport just after landing that there would be a launch at 1:30am on 25th August which was the missus birthday (just). So I booked the trip, and it was not a good experience to be honest. Weather that afternoon/evening was not good and I had a feeling that it would be scrapped, but we were still loaded onto the coach and taken to the VIP area (bank of the Banana River) - not very VIP but is about as close as you are allowed to get. Were there on the bank for well over 3 hours, quite bored and fearing that the launch would be scrapped - which it was, 5 minutes before launch. Horrible trip back to where we were picked up (first to be picked up, last to be dropped off after a couple of detours) and finally got back to our Villa at about 4:30am. The launch was re-scheduled for the next night, but again was scrapped this time due to a technical fault. The launch finally went ahead a few days later, and to make things worse I fell asleep a few minutes before launch watching it on telly and woke up a few minutes after lol

Tip for you - take some snacks and stuff for when you are by the Banana River as they get you there hours before launch, and although there are chairs there for you might be an idea to take a picnic blanket too. A tripod if you have one is a good idea if you want to take photos as its hard to take decent pictures due to how far away you are (in the dark anyway)

On the news last night they reported the Shuttle had a faulty valve and was being taken off the launch pad to go back to the hangar and the April 5th launch is now iffy.... sorry.

We'l keep our fingers crossed but on nasa's website it says the cargo that is to go to the space station was delivered to the launchpad yesterday. So things are still going as planned 13 days to hols

We are just returned from a fab 3 weeks in Orlando. The shuttle launch was fabulous, awesome, words cant describe it really, an experience of a lifetime

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We are just returned from a fab 3 weeks in Orlando. The shuttle launch was fabulous, awesome, words cant describe it really, an experience of a lifetime :cheers

also had the pleasure of seeing his a few years back, awesome sight and it was the sound that really blew me away, never heard noiselike that in my life.

highly recommend to anyone going to fla to go if there is one on.