Cool HUGE pic of Atlantis/Endeavor @ Canaveral

[billybob476]

http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/08pd2726.jpg

Since the pic is so big (3000 x 2000 pixels) I'm just posting a link. Found this on digg. Very, very cool pic, here's the description:

Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S.A. -- With two rainbows framing the Launch Complex 39 area in the early morning at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 20 September 2008, NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on pad A and NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour (upper left) on pad B. Photographer: Troy Cryder, NASA

[Bryancd]

Awesome pic, looks like a scene from "Armageddon"! Why are they both out there?

*Edit* Oh, here's why:

RELEASE : 08-237 
Space Shuttle Endeavour Moves To Launch Pad 39B

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- For the first time since July 2001, two shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Space shuttle Endeavour completed a 4.2-mile journey to Launch Pad 39B on Friday, Sept. 19, at 6:59 a.m. EDT.

Endeavour left Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building at 11:15 p.m. Thursday, traveling at less than 1 mph atop a massive crawler-transporter.

Endeavour will stand by at pad B in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during space shuttle Atlantis' upcoming mission to repair NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, targeted to launch Oct. 10. After Endeavour is cleared from its duty as a rescue spacecraft, it will be moved to Launch Pad 39A for the STS-126 mission to the International Space Station. That flight is targeted for launch Nov. 12.

Video file of rollout will be available on NASA Television. For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, visit:

[Rico]

That's a great picture - my new wallpaper!

Atlantis is due to go up on Oct. 10th.

Endeavor is due up on Nov. 12th

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html

[moyer777]

I put it on my desktop too.  How cool.  It looks like a Sci Fi movie... but it's real!!!!!!!!!!!!