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- Atlantis to Retire in Florida -
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Space Shuttle Atlantis' three main engines take center stage to the banners commemorating the orbiters that served the Space Shuttle Program.
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In a ceremony held in front of Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the facilities where four shuttle orbiters will be displayed permanently at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program.
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Atlantis, which will fly the last planned shuttle mission in June, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Taken April 12, 2011
Taken April 12, 2011
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Special Note: Space Shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 launch to the International Space Station remains on target for April 29th at 3:47pm EDT.
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- The Space Shuttle -
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Since 1981, NASA Space shuttles have been rocketing from the Florida coast into Earth orbit. The five orbiters - Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour - have flown more than 130 times, carrying over 350 people into space and travelling more than half a billion miles, more than enough to reach Jupiter. Designed to return to Earth and land like a giant glider, the shuttle was the world's first reusable space vehicle. More than all of that, though, the shuttle program expanded the limits of human achievement and broadened our understanding of our world...
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Image credit: NASA
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