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Universe Today photographer Alan Walters was on hand at Kennedy Space Center today to see the arrival of ET-138, the external tank for the final scheduled space shuttle mission, STS-134. Enjoy this gallery of images, (because it is something that might only happen one more timeā¦). There was also a surprise drive-by of some segments of used shuttle solid rocket boosters.
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