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Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis was in the final phase of their Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. STS-125 was proceeding to plan and their vehicle was deemed to be in ...

The Atlantis shuttle lifted off at 1129 local Florida time (1629 BST) on a mission to haul critical supplies to the International Space Station The flight is the 135th and final space shuttle ...

On this date, Jan. 20, 1997, space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the Russian Mir space station. Atlantis, on its fifth trip to Mir, made two flights around the station after undocking and ...

After nearly 30 years and 134 liftoffs NASA launched its final shuttle into orbit. Space shuttle Atlantis will carry out the program's last mission. While the future of NASA's budget still remains ...

Once they had finished their work, the pair re-entered the shuttle at 11.22pm last night our ... the shuttle Atlantis whose 11-day mission is to attach a 350ft truss to the space station.

Atlantis, and Endeavour. An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by ...