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Thirty Years of NASA Space Shuttle Missions
NASA's space shuttle fleet is hanging up its wings after 30 years. The first shuttle flight, STS-1, launched on April 12, 1981.
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Her works now hang alongside those of Rockwell and Warhol.
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Space shuttle Atlantis is slowly towed from the Shuttle Landing Facility to an orbiter processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the last time in this amazing space wallpaper.
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Astronauts reflect on the end of the space shuttle era American human spaceflight future.
Atlantis will be prepped for retirement at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
Atlantis' historic landing elicited a sense of pride and accomplishment, tinged with sadness, for those involved with the shuttle program.
NASA Administrator salutes men and women who flew on the space shuttle.
The shuttle Atlantis appeared in the predawn sky and glided to the ground for an emotional end.
The STS-135 crew landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center at 5:56am EDT on July 21, 2011. After thirty years of service, this marks the end of the storied career of the space shuttle program.
See photos from NASA's final space shuttle landing on July 21, 2011.
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