Launch Reactions

@CraigFifer

@AdamZ @lartist

@KelleyApril shares her reaction (1:20) with Bill Capo of New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV, immediately after the launch

@KelleyApril shares her reaction immediately after the launch

@KelleyApril shares her reaction immediately after the launch

@darthgeek

@AdamZ @lartist

@robpegoraro @CraigFifer

A commemorative event cover featuring a cachet of the STS-135 mission insignia, and bearing a pictorial cancellation by a postal unit at the Kennedy Space Center

NASA Outreach Program Manager Beth Beck (@bethbeck) hugs an emotional @KelleyApril immediately after the launch

@KelleyApril smiles with Launch Pad 39-A in the distance

@Dbirdy

A snarky @KelleyApril, with Launch Pad 39-A in the distance

@Dbirdy

A very happy @KelleyApril, with the Vehicle Assembly Building in the background

@KelleyApril records a memory of the launch to mail to herself in a commemorative event cover featuring a cachet of the STS-135 mission insignia, to receive a pictorial cancellation by a postal unit at the Kennedy Space Center (photo courtesy of @KelleyApril)

A letter to my nine month-old niece, Shai, written minutes after the launch and mailed to her in a commemorative event cover featuring a cachet of the STS-135 mission insignia, to receive a pictorial cancellation by a postal unit at the Kennedy Space Center

@glancz records a memory of the launch to mail to herself in a commemorative event cover featuring a cachet of the STS-135 mission insignia, to receive a pictorial cancellation by a postal unit at the Kennedy Space Center (photo taken with permission)