Rocket Motors on Shuttle Atlantis is a photograph by Roger Wedegis which was uploaded on March 8th, 2013.
Rocket Motors on Shuttle Atlantis
This is a view of the motors on the Space Shuttle Atlantis before it's final prep to be put on display at the visitors center at Kennedy Space... more
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Rocket Motors on Shuttle Atlantis
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Roger Wedegis
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Photograph
Description
This is a view of the motors on the Space Shuttle Atlantis before it's final prep to be put on display at the visitors center at Kennedy Space Center.
The last mission of Atlantis was STS-135, the last flight of the Shuttle program. This final flight, authorized in October 2010, brought additional supplies to the International Space Station and took advantage of the processing performed for the Launch on Need mission, which would only have been flown in the event that Endeavour's STS-134 crew required rescue. Atlantis launched successfully for the final time on 8 July 2011 at 16:29 UTC, landing at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on 21 July 2011 at 09:57 UTC.
By the end of its final mission, Atlantis had orbited the Earth 4,848 times, traveling nearly 126,000,000 mi (203,000,000 km) in space or more than 525 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
Atlantis was named after RV Atlantis, a two-masted sailing ship that operated as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1930 to 1966
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March 8th, 2013
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Comments (16)
Barbara St Jean
That really looks like something from space!! great description and fabulous capture!! F/V
Xueling Zou
Wow, this is so cool! Thanks for your description and share all the info here! Fantastic, Roger!
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