posted 07-09-2011 01:45 AM               

To mark the end of the Space Shuttle program, I selected a series of photos showing two orbiters in one shot.

September 20, 2008: With two rainbows framing the Launch Complex 39 area in the early morning at KSC, Atlantis (foreground) sits on pad A and Endeavour on pad B with both rotating service structures retracted. For the first time since July 2001, two shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time. Endeavour is standing by at pad B for a possible rescue mission during Atlantis’ mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, targeted to launch October 10.