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Kinda can’t believe it’s been 13 years since the last Space Shuttle launch. 🚀 Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on STS-135 this week in 2011. | National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135, which took place on July 8, 2011, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. STS-135 was not just another launch — it was the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program after more than 30 years of spaceflight. With this launch, the Space Shuttle era officially came to an end. Atlantis carried critical supplies and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS), ensuring astronauts could continue living and working in space after the shuttle pr

July 8th - on this day in 2011, the final launch of the Space Shuttle program took place when Atlantis lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for the STS-135 mission to the International Space Station. The final Space Shuttle crew included only four astronauts: Commander Christopher Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialists, Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim. On this last mission the Space Shuttle carried 12,890 kg of payload mass to the orbital outpost. | NASAS

As we prepare for the first crewed mission from American soil to the ISS since the Shuttle era, we remember Atlantis. The STS-135 crew landed safely on runway 15 at 5:57 a.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida, ending a 13-day journey of more than five million miles. It was the final and 133rd landing in shuttle history. The STS-135 crew consisted of Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim. #NASA #NASAhistory #