NASA's 30-year space shuttle program came to an end on July 21st, 2011. To mark the occasion, the Nature Video team have produced this tribute which features footage from every shuttle flight and is set to a rockin' soundtrack
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HOUSTON -- NASA's last space shuttle ever to visit the International Space Station cast off from the orbiting lab early Tuesday (July 19) to begin one final trip back to Earth. Atlantis launched July 8 on the 135th and last voyage of NASA's 30-year space shuttle program
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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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