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Timelapse video: The final space shuttle assembled for flight

May 19, 2011 Spaceflight Now

A timelapse video shot inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center chronicles the stacking of the final shuttle mission’s booster, external fuel tank and the addition of the orbiter Atlantis. (Membership Required)