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NASA's Final Space Shuttle Mission — Where Are They Now?

One year (and one day) after launching on NASA's final space shuttle mission, the orbiter Atlantis is parked today just a few miles from the launch pad where it lifted off on July 8, 2011.No longer flight-worthy — its main engines replaced with replicas and its hazardous fuel lines removed — Atlantis is waiting inside a high bay in the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to complete its transformation into a museum-safe display later this year.This November, NASA plans to roll Atlantis, the last of its space-flown shuttles, down the road to the center's visitor complex, where a $100 million exhibition hall for Atlantis will open to tourists next summer.Like Atlantis and some of its parts, so too has dispersed the team that led STS-135 , the final flight of NASA's 30-year shuttle program. A year since working together to fly one last mission to the International Space Station, the astronauts, Mission Control directors, and managers have since moved on to other missions, pro...

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  2. Space Station Gets Room, Huge Window to See Earth

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- Astronauts put the last big addition on the International Space Station early Friday, attaching a new room with an enormous bay window tha...

  3. Spacewalking Astronauts Turn Into Plumbers

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  10. Space Station Gets a New Room, Thanks to Spacewalking Astronauts

    The International Space Station got a bit bigger Thursday night thanks to two spacewalking astronauts who helped attach NASA's last major room for the orbiting lab ...

  11. Space Shuttle Astronauts Train for February Launch

    The six astronauts preparing to fly into orbit aboard NASA's shuttle Endeavour next month arrived at their Florida launch site Monday for final training sessions as...

  12. NASA Readying Space Shuttle For Pre-Dawn Launch

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is about to launch the mother of all Super Bowl pregame shows with the space shuttle Endeavour, which is poised to blast off before dawn...

  1. NASA Probing Whether Shuttle Repairs Caused Foam to Break Off

    NASA is investigating whether repairs to a small crack in the foam on Shuttle Discovery 's ( search ) fuel tank may have caused a 1-pound section of the insulation t...

  2. NASA Wants Shuttle Launch Next Spring

    The release of the report on the Columbia ( search ) disaster Tuesday opens the door for a new space shuttle mission by next spring.But even NASA ( search ) official...

  3. Space Station Gets a New Room, Thanks to Spacewalking Astronauts

    The International Space Station got a bit bigger Thursday night thanks to two spacewalking astronauts who helped attach NASA's last major room for the orbiting lab a...

  4. Space Shuttle Astronauts Train for February Launch

    The six astronauts preparing to fly into orbit aboard NASA's shuttle Endeavour next month arrived at their Florida launch site Monday for final training sessions as ...

  5. Shuttle Repair a Success, Another Possible

    With a gentle tug of his gloved right hand, Discovery ( search ) astronaut Stephen Robinson removed two worrisome pieces of filler material from the shuttle's belly ...

  6. Astronauts Honor Columbia's Fallen Crew

    As Discovery's astronauts paused Thursday to honor their seven colleagues who died while returning to Earth in 2003, NASA ( search ) officials pondered whether anoth...

  7. Discovery Cleared for Re-Entry

    After much soul-searching and analysis, NASA cleared Shuttle Discovery ( search ) to return to Earth next week, concluding Thursday that there was no need to send th...

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