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KSC-2011-5365

NASA / KSC · 2011-07-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Liberty Star, one of NASA's solid rocket booster retrieval ships, tows a spent booster from space shuttle Atlantis' final launch, to Port Canaveral in Florida. The shuttle's two solid rocket booster casings and associated flight hardware are recovered in the Atlantic Ocean after every launch by Freedom Star and Liberty Star.

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Credit lineKSC-2011-5365. NASA/KSC, 2011-07-08. Public domain. ID: KSC-2011-5365.
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