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

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 20:00 in Astronomy & Space

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. [More]

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