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.
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.
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.
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.
L’Hotel Tadoussac
The Tadoussac Hotel dominates the landscape on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, Québec.
Churchill Sunset
The sun sets over the solid granite of One Tree Island, as seen from the Churchill Islands, Georgian Bay.
Road to Nowhere
A ’57 Chevy inexplicably rusts into the solid granite of the Canadian Shield of the Bourchier 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.
