STS-135 Space Shuttle Atlantis Final Landing 21 July 2011

30-year Shuttle Program Ends.

Atlantis Completes Final Space Shuttle Program Landing at 5:57 a.m. EDT.
Atlantis' main gear touched down at 5:57:00 a.m. followed by the nose gear at 5:57:20 and wheels stop at 5:57:54 a.m. At wheels stop, the mission elapsed time was 12 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes and 50 seconds.

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[unamepasswd]

How beautiful touchdown is !

[reduolf]

The duration and iconic figure of the Space shuttle program just shows how much better the USA is than Russia in this field at least..period

[pharlap9]

cbff33, you did nail it!!! Saw that it will cost 68 million for one trip in the future to the space station. Bring our troops home and get this back up and running period....

[cbff33]

News flash!!!!Russia wins space race......stay tuned for coming news....In Sudden death OT....Russia pulls out a miracle victory in the cold war! Putin wakes up every morning...and laughs at the news of America....Walking directly in the footprints of the old USSR in the late 80's prior to it's collapse. Putin sees Cold War victory coming to mother Russia....soon

[Nfarce]

@oomblikkies Excellent response. I haven't heard it worded like that before, but you NAILED it.

[aimhigh59]

@sideslide23 We have been flying on Russian rockets for ten years now. Nothing has changed except that now your aware of it.

[oomblikkies]

@ajones35 Bush had no choice because both Houses were under democrat control. Point is Obama did nothing to save the shuttle and the tax payer must now pay real money to the Russians to get to the ISS. Real money is dollars that leaves the US (like oil imports), while, lets call it funny money, is money spent on eg. NASA, and wars because that money is paid to US companies/citizens and will eventually flow back to the government in the form of taxes.

[brewersfan892]

I love the Space Program. I actually heard the sonic booms of Space Shuttle Discovery's last flight.

[sideslide23]

If american goes back into space again, America will have to pay a hafty price because they would have to pay rent on the russians rocket ship allong with the fuel and launch.

[0172shane]

Russian back on business hahaha

You Americans now going to space because or we Russians hahaha

Before hand get into our shuttle American scientist has bend over for paying fare to the cosmos hahahaha