This picture is just great!!! After spending half a day close to the planes at Schiphol Airport where all the huge machines are so clean and lean, it’s simply amazing to see a aircraft that really went into space. U can see the roughness of this machine. U can see it has battled the elements of nature. I like that. This is the real stuff. This is no movie-plane, this is no prop.

[Space shuttle Discovery Commander Scott Horowitz sits in the cockpit of the orbiter as it rolls on the tarmac at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida August 22, 2001. Discovery completes a twelve-day mission to the International Space Station for an exchange of crews. REUTERS/Karl Ronstrom ]