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A photo of the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-74 crew taken from the space station Mir, November 12, 1995 (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

history

1995

critical hit 🪦

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

This is a badass picture

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

That sure was an awesome ship.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

And you can tell right away which one of them is Chris Hadfield!