Firing chain is armed, go for Main Engine Start T, -10987, All three engines up and burning 210 and lift. Get off the final lift off of Atlantis on the shoulders of the space shuttle. America will continue the dream roger Atlanta Houston, now controlling the flight of Atlantis. Space shuttle, spreads its wings one final time for the start of a sentimental journey into history. 24 seconds into the flight world program, complete Atlantis now heads down wings level on the proper alignment for it's 8.5 minute ride to orbit £4.5 million of hardware and humans taking aim on the International space Station 40.
A decade ago, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off for final mission in shuttle program
Updated: 11:56 PM EDT Jul 8, 2021
A decade ago this week, on July 8, 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis took off from the Space Coast on the last mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Program. Nearly a million spectators gathered to watch the launch, despite a 70% chance that the rocket would not take off at the start of the day. "The space shuttle spreads its wings one final time for the start of a sentimental journey into history," Ascent Commentator Rob Navias said. "For the last time, the space shuttle's main engines have fallen silent as the shuttle slips into the final chapter of a storied 30-year adventure." Taking off with Atlantis was astronauts Chris Ferguson, Sandy Magnus, Rex Walheim and Doug Hurley. In 2020, crewed launches returned to the Space Coast, with Hurley being one of the two astronauts aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon in a new era of commercial flights.The Space Shuttle Program lasted 30 years, beginning in April 1981 and ending with the final landing of Atlantis in 2011."What was my big worry? My big worry was to make sure the landing looked pretty so the space shuttle program could go out on a really good note," Ferguson later said.Together Columbia, Challenger, Discovery Atlantis and Endeavour made up the fleet for the program, flying on 135 missions and helping construct the International Space Station.Atlantis rolled to a stop from its final mission, STS-135, on July 21, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center.The shuttle program carried people into orbit repeatedly and launched, recovered and repaired satellites and were the first reusable spacecraft.
A decade ago this week, on July 8, 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis took off from the Space Coast on the last mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
Nearly a million spectators gathered to watch the launch, despite a 70% chance that the rocket would not take off at the start of the day.
"The space shuttle spreads its wings one final time for the start of a sentimental journey into history," Ascent Commentator Rob Navias said. "For the last time, the space shuttle's main engines have fallen silent as the shuttle slips into the final chapter of a storied 30-year adventure."
Taking off with Atlantis was astronauts Chris Ferguson, Sandy Magnus, Rex Walheim and Doug Hurley. In 2020, crewed launches returned to the Space Coast, with Hurley being one of the two astronauts aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon in a new era of commercial flights.
The Space Shuttle Program lasted 30 years, beginning in April 1981 and ending with the final landing of Atlantis in 2011.
"What was my big worry? My big worry was to make sure the landing looked pretty so the space shuttle program could go out on a really good note," Ferguson later said.
Together Columbia, Challenger, Discovery Atlantis and Endeavour made up the fleet for the program, flying on 135 missions and helping construct the International Space Station.
Atlantis rolled to a stop from its final mission, STS-135, on July 21, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center.
The shuttle program carried people into orbit repeatedly and launched, recovered and repaired satellites and were the first reusable spacecraft.
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