Two Space Shuttle photos, thirty years apart

Thirty years ago, the first space shuttle launched into the stratosphere. Chris Bray and his father Kenneth watched -- and took a picture. Last Friday, the shuttle Atlantis took its final trip. Again, the Bray men were there. Again, the two snapped a photo to capture the moment.

The side-by-side photos, which are up on Chris Bray's Flickr photostream, immediately went viral on the Web.

The first shot shows 13-year-old Chris with then 39-year-old dad looking through binoculars at the space shuttle Columbia's first launch on April 12, 1981, from the Kennedy Space Center.

The second snap comes three decades later July 8, 2011  recreates the same moment at the last space shuttle voyage. The young son is now an adult. His father is now gray-haired.