posted 06-25-2011 08:41 AM               

With the end of the Space Shuttle program approaching, I selected a series of photos showing two orbiters in one shot. I will post these in the coming weeks.

This rare view on September 5, 1990, shows two Shuttles on adjacent Launch Complex 39 pads with the Rotating Service Structures retracted. The orbiter Columbia on Pad A (foreground) was being readied for a September 6 early morning launch on mission STS-35, which was scrubbed on September 5. Its sister ship Discovery was rolled out the day before in preparation for an October liftoff on mission STS-41.