July 21, 2011 –
NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on this date.
After 135 flights in 30 years, the space shuttles were now history. NASA estimated with the landing of the Atlantis‘ flight over, the five shuttle orbiters would together have traveled 537,114,016 miles in orbit. Three hundred and thirty-five astronauts have flown on them; 14 died when the shuttles Columbia and Challenger were lost.
And so it goes
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