Troy McClellan

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  • Endeavour and her ride to California taxi by for one final take-off from KSC.
  • The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with Endeavour leave KSC for California. This is the last time that a 747 will ferry a Space Shuttle Orbiter
  • Endeavour waits in the VAB a week before her departure from KSC
  • Endeavour waits inside the VAB before her trip the California. The media was given a rare opportunity to spend more than an hour walking around her.
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  • Atlantis reaches the doors of the VAB for the last time. First motion was delayed about 35 minutes due to a hydraulic leak on the crawler-transporter.
  • Atlantis well clear of the doors as workers clear the plywood that was placed under the crawler tracks to protect the concrete floor of the VAB.
  • On a steamy Florida morning, Atlantis is towed back to the hangar from the Shuttle Landing Facility one last time.
  • Atlantis waits in the Transfer Aisle of the massive Vehicle Assembly Building before she is mated to the waiting External Fuel Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters. This same spot saw huge Saturn V rockets stacked for the Apollo Program.
  • Fiddler Crab at Apollo Beach Estuary.
  • Sea Gull up close at the St. Pete Pier.
  • A Florida Alligator floats in the blue water of the Hillsborough River.
  • A young Heron cleans its feathers
  • Sea Gull on final approach.
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  • Shot from a mound just to the right of the flame trench, about 200 feet away.
  • BNSF 7591 leads a double stack container train near Peach Springs Arizona
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  • The cockpit of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft a few days before the trip to California.
  • Discovery well on its way to launch pad 39A as seen from the KSC Press Site.
  • Discovery rolls to a stop after its final landing.
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  • Partial Solar Eclipse at Sunset, October 23, 2014
  • Downtown Tampa at Twilight
  • Delta IV WGS-5 shortly after tower rollback
  • The Prius goes to Complex 37!
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  • Liftoff of STS-135 Atlantis - The Last Shuttle
  • Wicked Lightning Over Lakeland
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  • Liftoff of SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A
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