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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers prepare space shuttle Atlantis for its trek from the Shuttle Landing Facility to Orbiter Processing Facility-2 for the last time. Atlantis' final return to Earth on Runway 15 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida occurred at 5:57 a.m. EDT July 21, 2011. Securing the space shuttle fleet's place in history, Atlantis marks the 26th nighttime landing of NASA's Space Shuttle Program and the 78th landing at Kennedy. Atlantis and its crew delivered to the International Space Station the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with more than 9,400 pounds of spare parts, equipment and supplies that will sustain station operations for the next year. STS-135 is the 33rd and final flight for Atlantis and the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2011-5775
Space Shuttle Discovery: Ready for a Tow
STS-120 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – United Space Alliance technicians monitor the space shuttle Atlantis as it moves out of the Vehicle Assembly Building VAB at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis is switching places with Endeavour which had been in Bay 2 of the Orbiter Processing Facility OPF. In the OPF, Atlantis will undergo final preparations for its transfer to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex targeted for November. The work is part of Transition and Retirement of the remaining space shuttles, Atlantis and Endeavour. Atlantis is being prepared for public display at Kennedy's Visitor Complex. Over the course of its 26-year career, Atlantis spent 293 days in space during 33 missions. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/transition Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-4504
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
Backing Out of OPF. NASA public domain image colelction.
STS-131 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Space Shuttle Endeavour touches down on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) after completing the 13-day, 18-hour, 48-minute, 5.74-million mile STS-113 mission to the International Space Station. Main gear touchdown was at 2:37:12 p.m. EST, nose gear touchdown was at 2:37:23 p.m., and wheel stop was at 2:38:25 p.m. Poor weather conditions thwarted landing opportunities until a fourth day, the first time in Shuttle program history that a landing has been waved off for three consecutive days. The vehicle carries the STS-113 crew, Commander James Wetherbee, Pilot Paul Lockhart and Mission Specialists Michael Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington, as well as the returning Expedition Five crew, Commander Valeri Korzun, ISS Science Officer Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Sergei Treschev. The installation of the P1 truss on the International Space Station was accomplished during the mission. KSC-02pd1869
A left front view of the Columbia space shuttle orbiter landing
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STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
Summary
Description: ALERT STILL COVERAGE OF TOUCHDOWN. VIEW FROM OUTSIDE OF FENCE. LOOKING SOUTH "WITH ORBITER COMING TOWARDS CAMERA" SHOW ORBITER DURING TOUCHDOWN. USE APPROPRAITE LENS AND LOCATION TO ASSURE AN ADEQUATE IMAGE SIZE AT ORBITER TOUCHDOWN. COMMITTED ONLY FOR RUNWAY 33 (SOUTH TO NORTH) LANDINGS.
Item: DL022-EOM
Date Taken: 11/27/2009
Image Type: DIGITAL STILLS
STS129 LAUNCH AND LANDING
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touchdown
orbiter touchdown
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show orbiter
adequate image size
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use appropraite lens
digital stills sts 129
space program
Date
25/07/2005 - 21/07/2011
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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