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The final shuttle mission was completed with the landing of Atlantis on July 21, 2011, closing the 30-year Space Shuttle program. The Shuttle was presented to the public in 1972 as a "space truck" which would, among other things, be used to build a United States space station in low Earth orbit in the early 1990s and then be replaced by a new ...
Atlantis had completed what was meant to be its last flight, STS-132, prior to the end of the shuttle program, [27] but the extension of the Shuttle program into 2011 led to Atlantis being selected for STS-135, the final Space Shuttle mission in July 2011. Atlantis display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
The securing of the Raffaello in the shuttle's payload bay marked the tenth and final transfer of an MPLM in the history of the Space Shuttle program. Atlantis and Space Station crew members said their goodbyes and closed hatches between the two spacecraft at 14:28 UTC, ending seven days, 21 hours, 41 minutes of joined docked operations. [121]
Atlantis after its final landing, marking the end of the Space Shuttle Program. The Space Shuttle retirement was announced in January 2004. [28]: 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.
Shuttle program ended 12 years ago. But now the world's busiest spaceport is rewriting another record for 2023: The number of orbital rocket launches. Years after space shuttle retirement, Florida ...
The mission patch depicted Atlantis flying into the sunset as she retired, and the Space Shuttle Program patches on sale at the Kennedy Space Center for the launch showed the years 1981–2010 for the program. The programme guide magazine to the launch also cited the launch as the final flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
End of mission; Landing date: ... Space Shuttle program ... STS-44 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis that launched on November 24, 1991. It was a U.S ...
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.