Timeline event · July 2011 · The Space Shuttle Era
The Final Space Shuttle Flight
Atlantis flies STS-135, the 135th and final Space Shuttle mission, ending thirty years of shuttle flight and beginning a gap in American crewed launch.
Highlights
- ›The shuttle era ends
Missions, people & worlds
Knowledge connections
- Part ofThe Space Shuttle Era
- Associated withSpace Shuttle program
- Associated withNASA
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- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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