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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.

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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 Centre Center (man that feels weird).

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Here’s a higher def version of that same picture.

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1995

critical hit 🪦

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I hate to tell you this, but yesterday is part of history.

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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.

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This is a badass picture

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