After 30 years and 3 months the Shuttle Program ceases. I remember seeing the first launch as a kid on TV in 1981. For all its shortcomings the shuttles hauled the parts for the International Space Station into orbit, fixed the Hubble multiple times giving us unprecedented views of the universe, launched robotic probes to many of the planets during he 1980's-1990's-and 2000's.
"I sometimes catch myself looking up at the Moon, remembering the changes of fortune in our long voyage, thinking of the thousands of people who worked to bring the three of us home. I look up at the Moon and wonder, when will we be going back, and who will that be?"-Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell, Apollo 13
Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes Historic Final Landing, Ending 30-Year Era (VIDEO)
"I sometimes catch myself looking up at the Moon, remembering the changes of fortune in our long voyage, thinking of the thousands of people who worked to bring the three of us home. I look up at the Moon and wonder, when will we be going back, and who will that be?"-Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell, Apollo 13
Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes Historic Final Landing, Ending 30-Year Era (VIDEO)
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