Go Inside NASA’s Atlantis Cockpit Powered Up for One of the Last Times in These Photos

(By Liz Klimas, TheBlaze.com) - Since you won‘t be able to sit in the cockpit of NASA’s Atlantis space shuttle while its on display in the Kennedy Space Center till the end of 2012, here are some insider photos. Astronauts operated all these buttons and switches until the shuttle program ended earlier this year.

collectSpace.com had the opportunity to to photograph the cockpit while the power was on for one of the last times.