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- vroom101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11. Launch of NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-106), September 8, 2000
http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-20040817k-processed-STS-106-NASA-KSC-00PP-1416.jpg
via http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20040817.htm -- photo 11
2. Liftoff of NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-117), June 8, 2007
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/07pd1439.jpg
via http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm -- photo 47 - DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1FTA: "This is Space Shuttle Atlantis at the start of its STS-27 mission on the morning of December 2, 1988. Ladies, you're lookin' at 375,000 pounds of thrust, baby!"
Um, hate to be a nit-picker, but that's about what *one* main engine produces. Combined with the other two + the SRBs and you're looking at close to ~7-8 million pounds of thrust. ;)
/dork - ButtonMonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I think that #1 wasn't #1 in that list.


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