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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a worker checks the hydraulic system that has lifted shuttle Atlantis off the floor to enable the orbiter transport system, or OTS, to be rolled underneath for its move, or "rollover," to the Vehicle Assembly Building. Once there Atlantis will be joined with the external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters on the mobile launcher platform. Atlantis is being prepared for the STS-135 mission, which will deliver the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module packed with supplies, logistics and spare parts to the International Space Station. STS-135 is targeted to launch June 28, and will be the last spaceflight for the Space Shuttle Program. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2011-2973
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a United Space Alliance technician monitors the nose landing gear during weight and center of gravity checks on the space shuttle Endeavour. The work is part of Transition and Retirement of the remaining space shuttles, Endeavour and Atlantis. Endeavour is being prepared for public display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Its ferry flight to California is targeted for mid-September. Endeavour was the last space shuttle added to NASA’s orbiter fleet. Over the course of its 19-year career, Endeavour spent 299 days in space during 25 missions. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/transition Photo credit: NASA/ Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-4426
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, NASA's chief technologist, talks with managers of the Morpheus lander that will soon begin flight and landing tests at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossman KSC-2012-4133
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, center, NASA's chief technologist, talks with managers of the Morpheus lander that will soon begin flight and landing tests at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-4137
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, center, NASA's chief technologist, talks with managers of the Morpheus lander that will soon begin flight and landing tests at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-4136
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, NASA's chief technologist, talks with managers of the Morpheus lander that will soon begin flight and landing tests at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-4135
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, NASA's chief technologist, talks with managers of the Morpheus lander that will soon begin flight and landing tests at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossman KSC-2012-4131
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, NASA's chief technologist, examines the Morpheus lander that will soon begin flight and landing tests at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossman KSC-2012-4129
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, NASA's chief technologist, examines the Morpheus lander that will soon begin flight and landing tests at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-4130
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, center, NASA's chief technologist, listens to details about the processing of the agency's first flight test Orion spacecraft by Lockheed Martin inside the Operations and Checkout Building's high bay at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-4155
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, center, NASA's chief technologist, listens to details about the processing of the agency's first flight test Orion spacecraft by Lockheed Martin inside the Operations and Checkout Building's high bay at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Lockheed Martin's Julian Schneider, left, led the presentation. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-4158
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, NASA's chief technologist, talks with managers of the Morpheus lander that will soon begin flight and landing tests at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossman KSC-2012-4134
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Dr. Mason Peck, NASA's chief technologist, talks with managers of the Morpheus lander that will soon begin flight and landing tests at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossman
The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.
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