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Space Shuttle Atlantis welcome home ceremony after last mission Space Shuttle Atlantis begins the last mission of the Space Shuttle program. Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down for the final time, July 21, 2011, at the end of STS-135. Empty status board in the Vehicle Assembly Building. The retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet took place ...
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
Atlantis after its final landing, marking the end of the Space Shuttle Program. The Space Shuttle retirement was announced in January 2004. [21]: III-347 President George W. Bush announced his Vision for Space Exploration, which called for the retirement of the Space Shuttle once it completed construction of the ISS.
Construction of the Air and Space Center will be completed around the full shuttle stack. The center's foundation has raised $320 million of the $400 million goal for the project.
When Atlantis successfully completed its mission last month, it brought to an end NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle program and thousands of jobs. Many of those positions ended in advance of the ...
The shuttle program was set for retirement after another shuttle, Columbia, disintegrated on reentry in 2003, and NASA reprioritized missions to complete construction of the International Space ...
STS-135 delivered supplies and equipment to provision the space station through 2012, following the end of NASA's Space Shuttle program. Since the ISS program was extended to 2024 [31] (now 2030), the station is resupplied by the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program which took over resupply missions from the Shuttle.
The shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space.