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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Titusville, United States by TravelPod blogger Youngtravellers titled “We are go for launch.” Youngtravellers’s travel blog entry: “The fact that we have had very few true adventures since our return to the US two years ago sometimes makes us a little antsy. We also have not ceased to make plans, and although most of those plans involve expensive air travel and overseas stays that, in our current jobs, with our current available vacation days, make themselves somewhat impossible; nevertheless, every now and again we come up with an adventure that is wholly plausible – if only we can get the timing right. So we did. One of Travis’s goals has long been to see a shuttle launch. Usually when he mentions such things, I think, “Hmm, that would be a very neat thing,” and so the plotting and planning may commence. The plan: Leave work in Washington, DC on the evening of Thursday, May 13, and drive all night so that we might arrive in Titusville, FL in the morning in time to find ourselves a good seat to watch the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. Launch is scheduled for Friday, May 14 at 2:19 pm After launch, go to pre-reserved hotel and pass out. On Saturday, visit the Kennedy Space Center to see the facility and do all manner of silly touristy things. The catch: Kennedy Space Center launches are notorious for being delayed for the slightest problem, and since the window for launch is 10 minutes (due to what’s flying …