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Final Four

An STS-135 photo album

  • By Tony Reichhardt
  • AirSpaceMag.com, November 16, 2012
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(NASA/Paul E. Alers)


Among the stops on the postflight publicity tour were the sets of The Big Bang Theory and The Colbert Report. Here Magnus chats with Stephen Colbert in the makeup room before appearing on the show.


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This is truly an extraordinary image - one that I have never before seen of any spacecraft from the vantage point of low earth orbit. I hope that the ISS crew was also taking high def video of the event as well! Amazing.

Posted by Don Baker on February 20,2013 | 12:49 PM

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