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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The biggest launch-day crowd in years watched eagerly as NASA's space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on its final mission. Only two missions are left after this one as NASA ...

After this flight there are only two space shuttle missions left before the orbiters are retired and sent to museums around the country. This is Atlantis' 32nd journey to space, and the 132nd ...

HOUSTON — NASA's shuttle Atlantis will ... at the International Space Station (ISS), mission managers said late Monday. The extra time will allow engineers on Earth to draw up plans to repair ...

hoping to draw summer tourism interest. It is intended to be the centerpiece for the new 90,000 square foot Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction, set to open June 29th, 2013. Space Shuttle Atlantis ...

The shuttle Atlantis blasted off today. Its seven astronauts are scheduled to spend seven days in earth’s orbit… The space shuttle lifted off on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

In June of 1995, the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched for a 10-day mission, half of which took place at Mir. The launch itself was the 100 th crewed space mission carried out by the United States ...

On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on its final mission. Atlantis was the last of NASA's space shuttles to fly into space. It went on 33 missions since 1985, ferrying astronauts ...

In its 30-year history since beginning in 1981, the Space Shuttle Program’s fleet — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour — flew 135 missions, clocking in at a total of ...

The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis blasted off Friday on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the 135th and final flight of the 30-year-old space shuttle program. The space agency NASA ...