"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– Space shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad 39A is viewed across the lagoon at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis is targeted to launch May 12 on the STS-125 mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope."
"Downtown Houston and southern portions of that city form the backdrop for this picture of the Space Transportation System's Challenger flying to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from its California landing site. It is ferried by NASA 905, a modified 747 aircraft. The crew inside the 747 was as follows: Pilot Joseph S. Algranti; Co-pilot Francis R. (Dick) Scobee; Flight Engineers Louis E. (Skip) Guidry Jr. and Glen O. Pingry. The frame was exposed by Bob Gray from the rear station of a nearby T-38 chase plane piloted by David L. Mumme. The Harris County Domed Stadium (Astrodome) can be seen near center."
Near Future NASA on film part 2: Design Antecedents, More Next Generation Shuttles, and Shuttle-adjacent
1. Planet of the Apes’ spaceship
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Pan Am space plane
3. The Fifth Element’s passenger spaceship*
4. Event Horizon’s Lewis and Clark rescue ship
5. Red Planet’s orbiter
6. The Time Machine’s lunar orbiter
7. Avatar’s Heavy Shuttle*
* not near future but the design evolution is there