Here’s a higher def version of that same picture.
Atlantis is now on display at Kennedy Space Center. The exhibit with it is very cool to experience. The shuttle is somehow both larger and smaller than I was expecting.
I saw the exhibit and got a little bit emotional if I’m honest when it was revealed near the start of the show.
Partly because of the sheer scale of it right in front of you, but because of where it’s been and how much human ingenuity, experience, and hope was put into it to make it work.
Great stuff. Well worth going to if you’re ever at Kennedy Space
CentreCenter (man that feels weird).
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critical hit 🪦
I hate to tell you this, but yesterday is part of history.
The lighting is so fascinating. It is so stark on the ship and then just vast dark nothingness behind it. I guess it is obvious that space photography wouldn’t have the shadows we have on the ground, but seeing photos like this always reminds me how small we all are.
I don’t care about it’s complications. The Space Shuttle was the coolest. It was the first model I put together as a kid (Challenger…RIP). I rewatched Space Camp the movie endlessly on VHS and wanted very very badly to go to Space Camp the place.
New technology can do whatever they want, but the shuttle is still MY space-ship.
This is a badass picture
And you can tell right away which one of them is Chris Hadfield!
You can try to avoid it, but the moustache draws the eye.
That sure was an awesome ship.
