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Final frontiers

By Brian Shrader

Posted: August 2, 2011

It's a tale of two shuttle programs.

Boston.com has an excellent collection of pictures from the final mission of Space Shuttle Atlantis in its "The Big Picture" feature. Some of the photos are truly spectacular.

Then, click here to have a look at what's left of the abandoned infrastructure from Russia's defunct space shuttle program.

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Cool - just saw the Buran on Google Earth. Giant facility!

cbarnett
August 2, 2011 2:41 p.m.