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STS-133 space shuttle Discovery Thermal Protection System belly tiles

Belly of the Beast

Secured in the Orbiter Processing Facility after her successful STS-133 mission, space shuttle Discovery is prepared for decomissioning and display at the Smithsonian Institution. Underneath Discovery and looking forward from roughly amidships, the orbiter’s Thermal Protection System tiles stretch forward toward the nose landing gear.

STS-133 final launch of space shuttle Discovery

One More Time

Space shuttle Discovery, STS-133 lifts off from the launch pad for the final time. Within twenty seconds of missing her launch window and being forced to abort, she had a flawless ascent to orbit.

STS-133 final launch of space shuttle Discovery

Branch

Consuming 20,000 pounds of propellants every second, space shuttle Discovery lights up the lagoons of the Kennedy Space Centre on the final flight of her career.


Claudette Abrams' Flight Path, Ward's Island, Toronto Islands

Flight Path

Claudette Abrams’ Flight Path gets the polar panorama treatment during Rogue Wave 2007, turning the Ward’s Island field into its own miniature planet.

Tadoussac hotel panorama, Tadoussac, Québec

L’Hotel Tadoussac

The Tadoussac Hotel dominates the landscape on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, Québec.

Sunset over One Tree Island, Churchill Islands, Georgian Bay

Churchill Sunset

The sun sets over the solid granite of One Tree Island, as seen from the Churchill Islands, Georgian Bay.


1957 Chevy panorama, Bourchier Islands, Georgian Bay

Road to Nowhere

A ’57 Chevy inexplicably rusts into the solid granite of the Canadian Shield of the Bourchier Islands.

Toronto skyline at night panorama, Centre Island, Toronto Islands

City of Lights II

The lights of Toronto come on at night in this high resolution panorama, as seen from the Toronto Islands Centre Island.