Space Shuttle Discovery Flight Deck Zoom (INTERACTIVE PHOTO)

This is the flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery. Several panels of switches are missing as part of her decommissioning process, as are closed circuit TV (CCTV) screens and storage lockers. During flight, the commander sat in the seat on the left and the pilot on the right. Hatches behind their seats lead below to the mid-deck. While in orbit, the rear windows looked out to the payload bay at any cargo operations while the windows on top usually gave a dramatic view of Earth far below.

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See more shuttle panoramas at on National Geographic in this article and in the magazine's new Spaceflight HD hub. Discovery can be viewed for real at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, although visitors won't be able to enter the flight deck.