Timing is everything in life

Andy Bloxham has an article in The Telegraph about a lucky (and quick-thinking) Delta passenger:

Stefanie Gordon, a 33-year-old events organiser from Hoboken, New Jersey, was flying to meet her mother in Florida when she woke up and looked out of the window to see the shuttle emerge from the clouds and blast into space. She posted the photograph online with the dry comment: "Three things about my flight: I can lay down across three seats just fine, it was freezing, and I got to see this."
It quickly became one of the most popular items of the day on Twitter, and had been seen by hundreds of thousands of people.
The trail is informally known as a "rocket road" among staff at NASA, but it is rarely captured on camera. The photograph clearly shows the contrail, which has been twisted by high-altitude winds, and whose shadow lies along the clouds below.