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  1. Space Shuttle Atlantis made one final move on November 2nd, 2012, to her new home at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The journey, stacked on top of the 76-wheeled Orbiter Transport System, competed the decommissioning process of the three orbiters and marks the first time that Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has b...

  2. Space Shuttle Endeavour, known as OV-105, flew twenty-five missions in her twenty years of service amounting to 296 days in space, 4,671 orbits of Earth and a distance traveled of almost 200 million kilometers (122 million miles). She carried the first pieces of the International Space Station to orbit and made the fir...

  3. Space Shuttle Endeavour is named after the ship that carried Captain James Cook to Tahiti for observations of the 1769 transit of Venus, the reasoning behind its British spelling. This orbiter, the fifth and final built for the space shuttle program, was constructed from structural spare parts to replace Challenger aft...

  4. Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) 905 was manufactured as a passenger aircraft 747-100 for American Airlines in 1970 but acquired by NASA in 1974. By 1976, Boeing had heavily modified the aircraft by stripping its interior and strengthening the fuselage to support the weight of an 172,000 lb orbiter attached on top. The f...

  5. The cockpit of Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) 905 hasn't been updated since it was built in 1970. There are no computer screens and no joystick controls. Both the pilot and co-pilot do have their own ashtrays, harkening back to the days when smoking would be common while flying a jumbo-jet. The additional weight and dr...

  6. This L-shaped, tubular airlock was added to Endeavour’s Payload Bay in 1997. Prior to this, an airlock existed internally in the Mid-deck of the Crew Module between the toilet and a bank of computers and storage lockers. An external airlock allowed not only more area in the cramped Mid-deck but also access both out i...

  7. The Payload Bay on Endeavour is 4.6m wide by 18m long (15ft by 59ft) and could carry payloads up to 25,060kg (55,250 pounds). It was often used to transport satellites or space station components to orbit but could also carry a Spacelab module with a myriad of experiments or provide a platform for the orbital servicing...

  8. Space shuttle Discovery rests in her new home in the Human Spaceflight hangar at the Smithsonian's Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Just one hour after Discovery's wheels stopped on her tow in to the facility, space shuttle Enterprise waits outside the door for her trip to Dulles Airport and eventually Intrepid Sea, Air, ...

  9. The space shuttle Discovery rests atop the Boeing-747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) just hours after landing at Dulles International Airport. This particular aircraft was the first ever to transport a shuttle, after being converted from a passenger plane for American Airlines in the early 1970s. It has ferried the spa...

  10. This is the flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery during her decommissioning process in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF). Several components are missing as part of that process including panels of switches, closed circuit TV (CCTV) screens, and storage lockers. During flight, the commander sat in the seat on...

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