Originally Posted by
Si B
My brother and I went there on a family holiday in 1994. We got up at 5am IIRC, and sat on top of the RV we rented to watch the thing launch.
It sat on the pad, main engines fired, and then shut down. Some safety system had a spaz and aborted literally a second before launch

If memory serves correctly, it was this very same Endeavour we 'thought' we were going to see launch
