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]