Greetings. This is the full stack of the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-125 the last Hubble servicing mission) in the Vehicle Assemble Building (VAB). The orange External Tank is flanked by the two Solid Rocket Boosters (which once lit burn to completion). The bottom tail of the Atlantis Orbiter can be seen just below the External Tank. Note that the SS full stack only takes up about half the height of the VAB (for the Saturn V used for the Apollo missions tip had to be pivoted to the side to fit!). The blue panels at the top of the photo are part of the ceiling with three (something like) skylights. This is all sitting on the Mobile Launch Pad which is completely moved out to the launch pad 3 miles distant.
The photos were taken in 2008 (I processed the pano some time later and processed the color just today).
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Handheld 8 shot stitched pano (ptGUI pano software), PS perspective correction (perspective warp I think), Topaz Simplify (cartoon for the edges and flattened out some of the detail), Topaz Adjust for the color.
This is all sitting on the Mobile Launch Pad which is completely moved out to the launch pad 3 miles distant.
Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
-Michael-


