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Shuttle mate demate facility[edit]

Original - Evening light begins to fade at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later redesignated Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California, as technicians begin the task of mounting the Space Shuttle Atlantis atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (NASA #911) for the ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Reason
High resolution of the Shuttle and the custom 747. Great composition, beautiful colours and a breathtaking sense of scale.
Articles this image appears in
Space Shuttle program , Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
Creator
NASA/Jim Ross
  • Support as nominator --Nich148 9 (talk) 10:28, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Great light, but the crop is a little too tight for my taste and the image itself looks very soft, probably from excessive noise reduction. Time3000 (talk) 10:54, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support yes its a tight crop, but I feel this is an otherwise superb quality picture of a hard to capture image - how often do the general public get to witness this sort of thing? So I feel this cannot be bettered for this particular process... Gazhiley (talk) 12:42, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 05:54, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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