Friday, July 22, 2011

Atlantis is transported to an Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-2) where she will be decommissioned following her safe return from space on July 21, 2011.
NASA / Kim Shiflett

IMAGES OF THE DAY... After yesterday’s landing of Atlantis, thousands of workers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida gathered to take part in an employee appreciation event to welcome home the orbiter and reflect on the end of the Space Shuttle Program. While this was a time to celebrate the safe and successful completion of the STS-135 mission, it was also a moment for the employees to contemplate about the unknown road that lies ahead for many of those who worked on the shuttle program. One can only hope that those who will be laid off in the coming days and weeks will be able to seek jobs elsewhere that will be as rewarding as working on a fleet of technological marvels that were the workhorses of America’s human spaceflight program for the past 30 years.

Thousands of workers gather at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to welcome home Atlantis after her safe return from space on July 21, 2011.
NASA / Frankie Martin

Scores of KSC employees photograph Atlantis as she is transported over to OPF-2 following her safe return from space on July 21, 2011.
NASA / Frankie Martin
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