2. Space shuttle

ATLANTIS - THE LAST SPACE SHUTTLE

STS-135 Shuttle Atlantis waits on the launch pad to make history as the last space shuttle flight. The shuttle program will end at the conclusion of this mission. Early in the morning of June 1st, 2011 Shuttle Endeavour was landing from it`s last flight at the same time Shuttle Atlantis was being moved aboard the huge crawler transport to launch pad 39-A - they passed less than two miles apart. The modern version of two ships passing in the night. When Atlantis launches on July 8, 2011 we will be there and have full photo coverage of the historic event posted here.
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  • Space Shuttle Atlantis sits on launch pad 39A for the last time. When it returns from the Space Station in July 2011, it will mark the end of the shuttle program.
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  • One of the NASA "limo`s" that transport members of the press to various locations within Kennedy Space Centers restricted area`s.
  • Shuttle Endeavour landed a few hours earlier, it is being made safe before it is put into the hanger. It will be processed, then transported to California to be put on display.
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  • A wood and fiberglass mockup of the space shuttle built by private persons, it was transported by rail from California and now resides in a field just past the security gate at KSC.
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