NASA / Jim Grossmann
Atlantis: Retirement Update... About two weeks ago, the Forward Reaction Control System pod was re-installed onto the orbiter Atlantis as her transition and retirement operation comes to a close in a few months. Earlier today, technicians inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida began preparing for the re-attachment of the first of Atlantis' twin Orbital Maneuvering System pods to the vehicle.
Atlantis and Endeavour are the two remaining space shuttles still in the possession of NASA. Discovery has been a museum piece for the Smithsonian since mid-April, while the prototype orbiter Enterprise will soon become one after arriving at her final home, the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City, last week. Endeavour will head to the California Science Center in late September, while Atlantis will be the last shuttle to become a space artifact. She is scheduled to be transported down the street to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex between November of this year and February of 2013.
NASA / Jim Grossmann
NASA / Jim Grossmann
NASA / Jim Grossmann
NASA / Kim Shiflett
NASA / Kim Shiflett
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