1.   Earlier last year a nesting pair of great horned owls were killed by heat from a shuttle launch.

2.   At Cape Canaveral, NASA continued preparations for the shuttle launch, which is scheduled for Thursday night.

3.   Baty said she plans to attend the shuttle launch Tuesday.

4.   Before this shuttle launch, Hagen and Whitefield sampled the exhaust of two Titan rocket launches.

5.   Glenn will be a mission specialist on a shuttle launch in October.

6.   How about viewing a shuttle launch?

7.   Last month, NASA imposed restrictions on public access to shuttle launches when it suspended the popular practice of issuing free car passes.

8.   Many of the spectators were on previously planned Florida vacations and simply added the shuttle launch to their itineraries.

9.   Maybe a shuttle launch, Gibbons said, but that has yet to be measured because any monitoring equipment mounted next to a rocket would melt.

10.   Now she might just stay until the Thursday shuttle launch, to be part of history.