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OV-104 (cn OV-104) Fireworks explode over Atlantis, marking the end of the space shuttle program! The final event ever saw Atlantis towed down the street to the KSC Visitors Complex and its new $100 million museum home. |
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Photo ID: 2205499
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) Space shuttle orbiter Atlantis moves from its processing hangar, Orbiter Processing Facility 2 (OPF-2) to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for the final time on Oct. 17th. In this picture, one can see OPF#3 (used to be the favorite hangar for Discovery) and Crawler #2. The last mobile launch platform used by a shuttle (Atlantis) and the new launch platform is towards the top. Bottom right is the scrapping of the Apollo/shuttle era support platforms in progress. The circling vulture is fitting. |
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Photo ID: 2199783
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) The last space shuttle movement ever in progress at dawn. Atlantis on her 10 mile trek from the VAB to the KSC visitor center for her final display. It was rather odd to see the move handled by a local construction company as oppossed to the regular NASA/USA orbiter crew. A sad day for me and the end of a 11 year career chasing shuttles. |
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Photo ID: 2193499
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) The last space shuttle that was removed from the fleet and the last to make a space flight on Atlantis in the photo is being taken to its new home the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this activity was called Atlantis Celebrate the Journey and was a pleasure to be part of the story. |
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Photo ID: 2109132
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) During docking proceedure, the Commander will actually stand here and look through windows while using the joystick (right) to fly the orbiter. It has two overhead and aft viewing windows for viewing orbital operations. The aft flight deck station also contains displays and controls for executing attitude or translational maneuvers for rendezvous, stationkeeping, docking, payload deployment and retrieval, payload monitoring, remote manipulator system controls and displays, payload bay door and CCTV ops. |
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Photo ID: 2094680
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) The final space shuttle launch, STS-135, is seen from a camera positioned about 350 feet away from Shuttle Atlantis and its 7.5 million pounds of thrust. Upon return, the plastic protecting the camera from the weather was melted and shredded and the front of the lens pitted and ruined! All in the business of photographing rockets and shuttles. |
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Photo ID: 2090199
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) A sight that will only be preserved in history as final power down for "Atlantis" occurred on 12/22/2011. This is the view from the location of the jump seat for the Flight Engineer. Left seat is the "Commander" position. Right seat is the "Pilot" position. NASA does not use pilot/co-pilot designation as all have very high flight hours/types. |
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Photo ID: 2088601
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) Can you feel the power? Atlantis is seen making the final Space Shuttle launch on mission STS-135. This view is from Astronaut Road, along side Banana Creek, a bit less than 4 miles away from Launch Pad 39A. This marks my 6000th shot on a.net. |
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Photo ID: 2085821
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) Space shuttle 'Atlantis" in the transfer aisle of the 525 foot VAB. This picture was taken from the 16 floor looking down upon her as she is hooked to the trailer with the generators to run her systems. Currently, visitors to the visitor center at KSC were able to able to by a ticket to come see an orbiter in her natural domain. The stream of people on the bottom left of the picture are from that tour. Once all three orbiters are at their final destinations, this bonus feature will be gone from the tour. |
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Photo ID: 2081160
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) The two most flown orbiters meet for the final time. "Atlantis" is lined up to enter OPF#01 to finish her transition and retirement. "Discovery" is done and has just vacated OPF#01 and will soon depart KSC for the last time. The two orbiters paused nose-to-nose for one final good bye. Here Discovery heads to the VAB for storage till her ferry flight. This is the closest the two orbiters have ever been to each other. |
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Photo ID: 2069890
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) Atlantis's pilot side of the cockpit as seen from the front displays all the way back to the aft remote arm panel. If you look closely the overhead windows as well as the payload bay windows can be seen. The orbiter is fully configured as if she is ready to fly here with all powered up. The pilot's display shows the Horizontal Situation Indicator lit. The blue squares are liberal use of velcro to tie down floating objects when in orbit. (15mm fisheye view from center console level). A sight now gone forever. |
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Photo ID: 2065774
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) Full left side (including aft controls and overhead consoles) of the "alive" flight deck of "Atlantis". I stood on the ladder connecting the middeck to the flight deck to capture this view, seldom seen by the general public, showing her in all her glory-just as in space. A team of spacecraft technicians patiently worked with me to power the displays in flight configuration and adjust the lighting to make a quality image. My thanks to them! She was powered down for eternity not long after. |
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Photo ID: 2064658
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) Shuttle Atlantis sends birds flying as it lifts off on STS-129 to the International Space Station. |
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Photo ID: 2058987
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) The last slide of the one and only slide camera at the last space shuttle launch. I put a Minolta X-700:50mm lens & Fuji Velvia 50 (F/8@1/1000) on the pad. Secured to the ground with six 9 inch stakes and three 30 lb sandbags at each leg of the tripod. Camera was fired by the sound of the main engine start and shot all 36 frames with this being the last complete frame. Despite being a dull overcast day, the film captured a better dynamic range than digital hence resulting in richer color prints. |
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Photo ID: 2017933
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OV-104 (cn OV-104) Employees and the crew of STS-135 hold up a "We're Behind You, Atlantis!" banner to commemorate space shuttle Atlantis' STS-135 mission and final flight for the Space Program. The banner has thousands of signatures and will accompany the orbiter all the way to the pad. Post launch,it will be preserved in the VAB and eventually join Atlantis in retirement at Kennedy Space Center. "Atlantis" is being rolled over from its processing hanger to the VAB so that it can be mated with the ET and SRBs. |
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