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Inside SpaceX: A Hint of Life After the Space Shuttle -- Wired

A few days before the last space shuttle launch, private-sector rocket-builder SpaceX staff hosted a tour of its rocket assembly building, launch pad, launch control center and other facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. We put you in our shoes with this gallery.

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APOD has a sweet photo of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in its final approach to the ISS today.

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Unique 'Portrait' Of Shuttle And International Space Station Released -- NASA

Newly-released portraits show the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade. The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

On May 23, the Soyuz was carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli back to Earth. Once their vehicle was about 600 feet from the station, Mission Control Moscow, outside the Russian capital, commanded the orbiting laboratory to rotate 130 degrees. This move allowed Nespoli to capture digital photographs and high definition video of shuttle Endeavour docked to the station.

The Soyuz landed in Kazakhstan and was taken to Moscow for routine post-landing analysis. NASA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, then processed the imagery as part of the standard disposition of spacecraft cargo.

Visit http://go.nasa.gov/stationportrait to view the images.

Shuttle Endeavour arrives at space station for final visit -- Washington Post

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