New shuttle Atlantis exhibit gives close-up look at space flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, June 24: In deciding how to exhibit the space shuttle Atlantis, which goes on display next week, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida opted for a perspective that would allow the public a rare view. “One of the ideas that developed very early was to show the orbiter as only astronauts had seen it – in space,” said Bill Moore, chief operating officer with Delaware North Companies Parks and Resorts, which operates the visitors center for NASA at Cape Canaveral. (agencies)

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