Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shuttle mate demate facility.jpg

Shuttle mate demate facility

Original - Evening light begins to fade at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later redesignated Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California, as technicians begin the task of mounting the Space Shuttle Atlantis atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (NASA #911) for the ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Reason

High resolution of the Shuttle and the custom 747. Great composition, beautiful colours and a breathtaking sense of scale.

Articles this image appears in

Space Shuttle program , Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

Creator

NASA/Jim Ross

• Support as nominator --Nich148 9 (talk) 10:28, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose Great light, but the crop is a little too tight for my taste and the image itself looks very soft, probably from excessive noise reduction. Time3000 (talk) 10:54, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
• Weak Support yes its a tight crop, but I feel this is an otherwise superb quality picture of a hard to capture image - how often do the general public get to witness this sort of thing? So I feel this cannot be bettered for this particular process... Gazhiley (talk) 12:42, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 05:54, 21 September 2009 (UTC)