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[i]We figured that question was coming and we've come up with a tag line for you, 'This is the first last flight of Atlantis.'[/i]
[i]NASA confirms it was found by a United Space Alliance inspector going over the orbiter in standard post flight operations after the shuttle landed. Credit: United Space Alliance/Central Florida News 13 News 13 spoke to the worker who took the picture, who wants to remain anonymous. He told News 13 he found it tucked away on the upper side of Locker A-16 while scanning the area with a mirror. He said the note must have been written on orbit. Otherwise, the astronauts would have had to stand on their heads.[/i]
[i]Following splashdown, while en route to Hawaii on the USS Hornet, Michael Collins crawled back into the command module (it was connected to the mobile quarantine facility by an air-tight tunnel) and wrote a short note on one of the equipment bay panels. Credit: Smithsonian "Spacecraft 107 - alias Apollo 11 alias 'Columbia' The Best Ship to Come Down the Line. God Bless Her."[/i]
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