CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Many flyers love to get the window seat for the incredible views out the window. Some prefer the aisle for convenience. On a southbound flight Tuesday over the Space Coast, everyone wished they had a window seat.
The Delta flight was traveling from New York to Cancun. Traveler Andy Lin from New York, who shared the video above with 10 Tampa Bay, said the pilot announced the possibility of seeing the rocket about four minutes before they saw it.
The launch happened Tuesday at 1:37 p.m. at NASA. It was a United Launch Alliance (ULA) launch with the Atlas V rocket carrying a missile-detection satellite for the United States Space Force.
How lucky was Lin with timing? The launch was supposed to launch six minutes earlier at 1:31 p.m., meaning Lin's flight would have missed seeing at least most of it.
However, Lin's timing is even luckier because the launch was actually delayed 24 hours, originally scheduled to launch Monday but was delayed due to technical issues.
The ULA launch was successful and Lin and the rest of the passengers got the flight of a lifetime.
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