The space shuttle Atlantis with payload bay doors open is displayed inside the Atlantis exhibit building at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center in Florida on June 7, 2013. Atlantis is raised 30 feet (9.1m) in the air and tilted at a 43.21 degree angle as if orbiting the Earth, inside the new 100 million USD facility schedule to open later this June.
Media flock to get pictures of the space shuttle Atlantis June 7, 2013 with payload bay doors open and the Canada arm deployed (R) inside the Atlantis exhibit building at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center in Florida. Atlantis is raised 30 feet (9.1m) in the air and tilted at a 43.21 degree angle as if orbiting the Earth, inside the new 100 million USD facility schedule to open later this June.
The crew of the US space shuttle Atlantis speeds by the Vechicle Assembly Building (VAB) on their way back to the operations and check out building 08 September, 2006 after being scrubbed for take-off at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA on Friday again delayed the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis for 24 hours, citing a troublesome fuel sensor, a spokesman said.'The launch is scrubbed, and we'll come back in tomorrow and see how the sensor behaves,' launch director Mike Leinbach said.
US Space Shuttle Atlantis begins its final move on November 2, 2012 as crews move it from its temporary parking in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to the Center's Visitor Center for permanent display. The spacecraft traveled 125,935,769 miles(202,673,974kms) during 33 spaceflights, including 12 missions to the International Space Station. Its final mission, STS-135, closed out the Space Shuttle Program era with a landing on July 21, 2011.
Workers and visitors watch the US Space Shuttle Atlantis moves on November 2, 2012 to the Visitors Center at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, for permanent display. The spacecraft traveled 125,935,769 miles(202,673,974kms) during 33 spaceflights, including 12 missions to the International Space Station. Its final mission, STS-135, closed out the Space Shuttle Program era with a landing on July 21, 2011.
Jack Mosdell and Gavin Kondracki lie in their crib as other children from the Kennedy Space Center Child Development Center watch as the Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its final journey from the Vehicle assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. to its new home at the center's visitor complex, early Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.