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Ten years since the final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis, three of her final astronaut crewmembers looked back and looked forward Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – The first solid rocket boosters stacked inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building since the space shuttle are on a mission to the moon. The completely stacked, 17-story solid rocket boosters of the Space Launch System rocket now await the arrival of the SLS’s core stage, which will be integrated between the boosters. “Some of them have supported Space Shuttle flights, some of them were test articles and we’ve got some new ones,” VAB Operations Chief Tony Dees said. On the tenth floor of @NASAKennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building, we’re about halfway to the top of the completely stacked @NASA_SLS twin solid rocket boosters. The core stage, upper stage of the rocket and the Orion capsule will be stacked to a height twice as tall at the 17-story SRBs.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Fellow Space Shuttle veteran Garrett Reisman knows how Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley may be feeling on the eve of launch day. Fearless is how the first SpaceX Crew Dragon crew have appeared in the week since they arrived at Kennedy Space Center. That was seven years after Hurley was onboard the final shuttle mission, Space Shuttle Atlantis. I think they make a very great crew,” Reisman said. Like Behnken and Hurley, Reisman has also been to space twice, one of those times on a shuttle with Behnken.