The final flight of the Space Shuttle Program lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today. Atlantis' final flight will cap off an amazing 30-year program of exploration.
NASA's space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12, 1981. Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and repaired satellites, conducted cutting-edge research and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station.
The NASA website: www.nasa.gov offers a number of excellent pages covering all aspects of the space shuttle, including its history, past missions, benefits, technologies, photographs, computer wallpaper, and much more
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