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Atlantis is also the fourth operational and the second-to-last Space Shuttle built. [2] [3] Its maiden flight was STS-51-J made from October 3 to 7, 1985. Atlantis embarked on its 33rd and final mission, also the final mission of a space shuttle, STS-135, on July 8, 2011.
The STS-135 crew also provided a recorded message as a tribute to Atlantis, the entire Space Shuttle Program and team. In the message, Ferguson spoke about the U.S. flag displayed behind them that was flown on the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1. It was flown on this mission to be presented to the space station crew.
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. [ 1 ]
According to History.com, on this day in 2011, NASA's space shuttle program completed its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the ...
Enterprise's first test flight was on February 18, 1977, only five years after the Shuttle program was formally initiated; leading to the launch of the first space-worthy shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. The Space Shuttle program finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011, retiring the final Shuttle in ...
A new era of human spaceflight lifted off on April 12, 1981, when Space Shuttle Columbia took to the sky, a new generation of spacecraft that could launch into orbit around the Earth, deliver a ...
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
STS-86 was a Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station. This was the last Atlantis mission before ... return to Earth. Undocking took place at 1:28 pm ...