Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Space shuttle Discovery is transferred from an Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for temporary storage, on July 13, 2011.
NASA / Jim Grossmann

PHOTOS OF THE DAY... Earlier today, space shuttle Discovery was transferred from her Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-2) to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Inside the VAB, Discovery will be in temporary storage as Atlantis undergoes post-flight processing at OPF-2 once she completes her final mission about a week from now. Atlantis will be in OPF-2 for a month before Discovery returns to the hangar (or another OPF) and continues her decommissioning process. Discovery's delivery to her final resting home at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, however, won’t be till mid-to-late 2012.

Space shuttle Discovery enters the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for temporary storage, on July 13, 2011.
NASA / Jim Grossmann

Shown below are additional pics from yesterday’s last-ever EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity) to take place during a space shuttle flight. For more images from Tuesday's historic spacewalk, click here.

An image of the International Space Station's (ISS) Cupola, taken by a spacewalking astronaut on July 12, 2011.
NASA

NASA astronaut Ron Garan exits from the ISS' Quest airlock to begin the lone spacewalk of flight STS-135, on July 12, 2011.
NASA

With Atlantis' payload bay in the background, NASA astronaut Mike Fossum takes a photograph during the lone spacewalk of STS-135, on July 12, 2011.
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With Earth in the backdrop, Mike Fossum takes another photograph during the lone spacewalk of STS-135, on July 12, 2011.
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