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STS-132 Atlantis hangs in VAB

www.launchphotography.com/STS-132_lift.html

 

In a rare special photo opportunity, the Orbiter Atlantis is raised and rotated vertically inside the Vehicle Assembly Building for lifting and attachment to the external fuel tank and pair of solid rocket boosters that will take it into space on STS-132, its final planned mission.

 

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100508.html

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Uploaded on September 8, 2010
Taken on April 13, 2010