A United Space Alliance technician stabilizes an OMS pod being installed on space shuttle Atlantis at NASA Kennedy Space Center. OMS pods provide thrust for orbit insertion, rendezvous, and deorbit, with engines and propellant hardware in two aft fuselage pods. Pods were cleaned at White Sands as part of Atlantis’ retirement processing.

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