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Forum:	Space Shuttles - Space Station
Topic:	Space shuttle on Pad 39A in Google Maps

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by PeterO: [B]When viewed with Google Earth, the image date is Dec. 3, 2010. The image from Jan. 22, 2009 also shows a shuttle on the pad. The empty MLP is shown in several earlier images between December, 2003 and November, 2007. To see historical images in Google Earth, select the View menu, and check Historical Imagery. The image date will be shown at the bottom left of the Google Earth window. Click the four-digit year to the right of the date to open the historical imagery slider at the top left of the screen. [/B][/QUOTE]
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Paul78zephyr

If you zoom out, pan over to 39B, and zoom back in you can see that 39B is being deconstructed. So would that say that the photos are from sometime in 2009?

PeterO

When viewed with Google Earth, the image date is Dec. 3, 2010. The image from Jan. 22, 2009 also shows a shuttle on the pad. The empty MLP is shown in several earlier images between December, 2003 and November, 2007.

To see historical images in Google Earth, select the View menu, and check Historical Imagery. The image date will be shown at the bottom left of the Google Earth window. Click the four-digit year to the right of the date to open the historical imagery slider at the top left of the screen.

cycleroadie

If that date is correct, that's Discovery, STS-133, after the ET stringer tank issue crept up.

Jay Chladek

Given the time period in question, STS-133 would be my guess as well as the foam coloring patterns on the ET look consistent with photos of 133's ET on the pad. STS-134 had a big foam patch on it near the top and the banding color contrasts (not necessarily the colors themselves since ET foam darkens from UV exposure) seem a little different on 132's tank.

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