When I was Rescue we used to go to the cape for the shuttle launches and bee airborne during launch to assist with the astronauts rescue, pretty cool saw a bunch of launches from nearby in the air, 96-101 SSL's They never took off on the scheduled date so it was usually a week or so in Cocoa Beach in the fall/winter. Not a bad deal to get paid for! Perdium was awesome also NASA paid for all of it.