A #DesktopBackground looking down the fuselage of #Space Shuttle #Atlantis, on display at the #AtlantisMuseum in the #KSC Visitors Complex.

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A desktop background version of the #NASA #logo on the port wing of Space Shuttle #Atlantis, on display the #Kennedy #Space Center Visitors Complex.

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The #Rocketdyne RS-25 or #SSME was upgraded to the RS-25D, capable of 104% of the original #thrust.
The #RS25 is being modified into the RS-25E, and expendable version for the Space Launch System.
Rocketdyne’s experience with the SSME led them to create the expendable RS-68 for the Delta IV launch vehicle, though it was not suited for SLS due to the large solid rocket boosters on the #SLS #rocket.

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The Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex built the Atlantis #Museum, they built life-size replicas of the Space Shuttle External Tank and Solid #Rocket Boosters directly in front of the building which held #SpaceShuttle Atlantis.

This #photograph was taken from below the #ExternalTank.

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A stitched composite image of #NASA’s #Space Shuttle #Atlantis’ crew cabin in the #AtlantisMuseum at Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Complex.
The #Orbiter’s name is painted below and slightly behind the windscreen. The forward reaction control system nozzles can be seen, as can the #APAS docking ring.

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After #NASA’s #Space #Shuttle was retired, the #Orbiter #Atlantis was given to the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex after it was cleaned and prepared for public display.
#KSCVC decided to, using private-raised money, build a new, multi-level museum to hold Atlantis suspended as though it were in orbit.

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This #docking system was originally designed for the Apollo-Soyuz Test project in which an American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft met in orbit and docked.
The #APAS, Androgynous Peripheral Attach System, can dock to any other APAS system, unlike a probe-and-drogue system.
The Soviets continued developing the system for their Mir station and Buran shuttle.
However, instead of a Soviet shuttle docking to Mir, it was the American Space Shuttle.
In a post-Cold War show of friendship, the #SpaceShuttle was modified with a docking collar meant for another vehicle and used it to visit Mir and deliver supplies and help change crews.

This #photograph was taken at the #Atlantis #museum, where Atlantis is on display at Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex.

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When #NASA’s Space Shuttle #Orbiters were being assigned to #museums, the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex proposed to build a privately-funded museum to house #Atlantis and other space artifacts.
#KSCVC built a life-size replica of the External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters outside their #AtlantisMuseum.

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