NASA recently delivered the last of it's Space Shuttle fleet to become  a museum display.  The Space Shuttle Atlantis was recently transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to the nearby visitor center. This was a sad day for me as I reflected on numerous years spent supporting the Space Shuttle Program. I worked for many years at the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas in a laboratory called the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL). SAIL was responsible for testing the integration of flight hardware with flight software for each and every mission. SAIL contained a full scale replica of the Space Shuttle that was assigned an actual tail number - OV095). This image was taken of the Space Shuttle cockpit located in the SAIL.
Beechcraft KingAir turbo-prop at the 2011 Air & Auto Show in Abingon, Virginia
OLYMPIA, WA - JUNE 17: Kaman HH-43 Huskie aircraft demonstration during Olympic Air Show at Olympia Airport on June 17, 2012 in Olympia, WA.
OLYMPIA, WA - JUNE 17: Kaman HH-43 Huskie aircraft demonstration during Olympic Air Show at Olympia Airport on June 17, 2012 in Olympia, WA.
OLYMPIA, WA - JUNE 17: Kaman HH-43 Huskie aircraft demonstration during Olympic Air Show at Olympia Airport on June 17, 2012 in Olympia, WA.
OLYMPIA, WA - JUNE 17: Kaman HH-43 Huskie aircraft demonstration during Olympic Air Show at Olympia Airport on June 17, 2012 in Olympia, WA.
OLYMPIA, WA - JUNE 17: Kaman HH-43 Huskie aircraft demonstration during Olympic Air Show at Olympia Airport on June 17, 2012 in Olympia, WA.
OLYMPIA, WA - JUNE 17: Kaman HH-43 Huskie aircraft demonstration during Olympic Air Show at Olympia Airport on June 17, 2012 in Olympia, WA.
OLYMPIA, WA - JUNE 17: Kaman HH-43 Huskie aircraft demonstration during Olympic Air Show at Olympia Airport on June 17, 2012 in Olympia, WA.
OLYMPIA, WA - JUNE 17: Kaman HH-43 Huskie aircraft demonstration during Olympic Air Show at Olympia Airport on June 17, 2012 in Olympia, WA.
OLYMPIA, WA - JUNE 17: Kaman HH-43 Huskie aircraft demonstration during Olympic Air Show at Olympia Airport on June 17, 2012 in Olympia, WA.
OLYMPIA, WA - JUNE 17: Kaman HH-43 Huskie aircraft demonstration during Olympic Air Show at Olympia Airport on June 17, 2012 in Olympia, WA.
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