Note: This is an exert about how fireworks are seen even by astronauts in space.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. --
Sixty tons of fireworks shells exploded over the Ohio River Saturday night as fans braved chilly temperatures for Thunder Over Louisville.
Hundreds of thousands of fans huddled in the cold along the riverfront for the 30-minute show, which is now in its 19th year.
Note: Many fans huddled up like penguins just to see the fireworks.
The powerful pyrotechnics were carted in on eight tractor-trailers and loaded on barges and a bridge.
Two astronauts hovering in space were this year's designated starters. NASA Commander Peggy Whitson and Astronaut Garrett Reisman were shown on a video feed broadcast on WDRB-TV counting down to the start of the show.
The astronauts are stationed 205 miles above Earth in the International Space Station.
Note: Even astronauts see the fireworks in space.
An air show featuring dozens of military aircraft, including Apache helicopters, F-15s and the B-2 Stealth plane, filled the skies throughout the cold, cloudy day. Temperatures were stuck in the 40s all afternoon.
The fireworks show, billed as the largest in North America, blasted off at 9:29 EDT.
A Louisville native returned home to be part of the air show Saturday night.
Air Force Col. Robert Givens went to high school in Louisville and has flown an F-16 in the two Gulf Wars. He last flew at Thunder Over Louisville in 1997.
Givens trains Air Force F-16 pilots at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.
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