Atlantis ends its final voyage and an era in space
The last space shuttle flight rolled to a stop just before 6 a.m. on Thursday, closing an era of the US space program.
It was the 19th night landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to end the 135th space shuttle mission. For Atlantis, the final tally of its 26-year career is 33 missions, accumulating just short of 126 million miles during 307 days in space, circumnavigating the Earth 4,848 times.
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The last space shuttle flight rolled to a stop just before 6 a.m. on Thursday, closing an era of the US space program.
It was the 19th night landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to end the 135th space shuttle mission. For Atlantis, the final tally of its 26-year career is 33 missions, accumulating just short of 126 million miles during 307 days in space, circumnavigating the Earth 4,848 times. (Photo credit: The New York Times)
