Last Shuttle Astronauts Bid Historic Farewell to Space Station

Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 10:00 in Astronomy & Space

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 . The orbiter delivered four astronauts and a horde of spare parts for the space laboratory, and is now packed full of trash to take back to Earth. [More]

Read the whole article on Scientific American

More from Scientific American

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net