Last Space Shuttle Mission

Sounds of the final frontier.
Last space shuttle mission. Sts 135 the last space shuttle mission launched from kennedy space center on july 8 2011. Space shuttle atlantis completed its 33rd and final mission landing on runway 15 at kennedy space center s shuttle landing facility on the morning of thursday july 21 2011. A fifth operational orbiter endeavour was built in 1991 to replace challenger. Atlantis will fly nasa s 135th and final shuttle mission.
The space shuttle was retired from service upon the conclusion of sts 135 by atlantis on 21 july 2011. Top nasa officials have unanimously cleared the space shuttle atlantis for a july 8 launch the final space shuttle launch in history. Challenger and columbia were destroyed in mission accidents in 1986 and 2003 respectively killing a total of fourteen astronauts. Wakeup music of the space shuttle s final mission.
Sts 135 iss assembly flight ulf7 was the 135th and final mission of the american space shuttle program. For all who have worked to send these first of a kind engineering marvels to space and return them to earth all who have flown aboard them and all who have simply watched with awe and pride as they flew space shuttle atlantis sts 135 mission was an emotional end of an era. After a cliffhanger countdown the space shuttle atlantis thundered to life and majestically rocketed into history friday putting on one last sky show for spectators jamming area roads and. The space shuttle atlantis carried four nasa astronauts on the mission to resupply the iss as well as.
It performed well in 25 years of service flying 33 missions that included secret missions for the u s. It used the orbiter atlantis and hardware originally processed for the sts 335 contingency mission which was not flown.