NASA / Fletcher Hildreth
One year ago today, the orbiter Atlantis launched on the very last space shuttle flight as she embarked on mission STS-135 to the International Space Station (ISS). One year later, Atlantis is safely stored inside the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Vehicle Assembly Building while awaiting final decommissioning activities and transport to her future home at the KSC Visitor Complex...which will take place later this year or early 2013. With sister ships Discovery now on public display at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia and Endeavour only two months away from being sent to the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles to become a museum piece, KSC will soon bid farewell to the iconic vehicles that called the Florida spaceport their home for more than 30 years.
Check out the video below to see what America's premiere spaceport is doing to prepare for the future. KSC will not only welcome privately-made vehicles such as Boeing's CST-100 that will be launched to low-Earth orbital destinations such as the ISS, but it will also be the site of origin for missions that will venture into deep space once more...hopefully.
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