On Its Final Mission, Atlantis to Help Ready NASA for Post-Shuttle Era

NASA will send its final space shuttle into orbit this summer, when Atlantis lifts off from Kennedy Space Center for a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. The mission will garner much attention for what it represents — the 135th and final flight of NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program. But also important is the work that the four-member crew will be doing to ready the International Space Station for the post-shuttle-program era.

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On Its Final Mission, Atlantis to Help Ready NASA for Post-Shuttle Era