Photographing The Sad Last Days Of Florida’s Space Coast

Photographing The Sad Last Days Of Florida’s Space Coast:

Photographer David Ryle documented the strange place and time that was Cape Canaveral leading up to the space shuttle’s final launch.

For many, the space shuttle Atlantis’s program-ending final liftoff last summer was a sad moment. The “we can do anything,” man-on-the-moon mentality seemed dead, the golden age of space exploration budget-cut into oblivion.

Photographer David Ryle made it to Cape Canaveral a bit earlier, in 2009, to capture Atlantis’s final servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. And what he found became his collection Space Coast, a melancholic portrait of a culture’s last days, like a once-epic party in which the last few guests sipped warm beers into dawn, refusing to go home just yet.
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