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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis' bright-white, iconic frame illuminates the darkness as it touches down on the Shuttle Landing Facility's Runway 15 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the final time. Securing the space shuttle fleet's place in history, Atlantis marked the 26th nighttime landing of NASA's Space Shuttle Program and the 78th landing at Kennedy. Main gear touchdown was at 5:57:00 a.m. EDT, followed by nose gear touchdown at 5:57:20 a.m., and wheelstop at 5:57:54 a.m. On board are STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim. On the 37th shuttle mission to the International Space Station, STS-135 delivered more than 9,400 pounds of spare parts, equipment and supplies in the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module that will sustain station operations for the next year. STS-135 was the 33rd and final flight for Atlantis, which has spent 307 days in space, orbited Earth 4,848 times and traveled 125,935,769 miles. For more information visit, www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135.... Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The Space Shuttle Enterprise takes a final piggy back ride atop a NASA 747 on it's way to JFK airport and finally display at the Intrepid Museum. This flight was likely the last time any of the shuttles will be airborn.
We got to see the shuttle and the shuttle carrier take off this morning. It had stopped in Fort Worth for an overnight pit stop on its way from California to Florida.
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...and Californians get only the memory of the space shuttle landing at Edwards Air Force Base. I'm considering keeping this as a memento.
Probably the most beautiful launch I've seen so far.
If you look closely (I recommend viewing the large size), you can see three little points of light at the top. Those are the shuttle and the two solid rocket boosters, just after separation.
Showing sunset in Europe from the recent space shuttle flight. I don't have attribution information.
Front landing gear for the Space Shuttle orbiter prototype, Enterprise, at the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum (8/23/2009).
There's our holiday treat! Space Shuttle Endeavour was on its way back to Florida after landing in California on 11/30, so they did a couple of loops around JSC to show off.
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