Cause for reflection:The last scheduled night launch of the space shuttle program roused James Vernacotola in the predawn hours of February 8. Vernacotola, who works in the IT field in Jacksonville, Florida, lives a few miles from the Palm Valley Bridge, which crosses the Intracoastal Waterway 115 miles north of NASA's Kennedy Space Center. It used to be a two-lane drawbridge until a higher, clear-span, four-lane bridge replaced it in 2002, and improved the view for night launches. "But one thing that I think nobody realized was that that section of the Intracoastal Waterway south of the bridge was pointed toward the Kennedy Space Center, which made it possible to photograph a reflection," says Vernacotola.
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机译：引起反省的原因：在2月8日凌晨，航天飞机计划的最后一次预定夜间发射激发了詹姆斯·韦尔纳科托拉（James Vernacotola），他在佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔（Jacksonville）的IT领域工作，离棕榈谷大桥（Palm Valley Bridge）仅有几英里之遥。在NASA肯尼迪航天中心以北115英里处的沿海内河道。它曾经是一个两车道的吊桥，直到2002年有一个高跨度的四车道桥取代了它，并改善了夜间发射的视野。韦尔纳科托拉说：“但是，我认为没有人意识到的一件事是，桥南侧的沿海内河道指向肯尼迪航天中心，这使得拍摄倒影成为可能。”
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