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During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to "expedite the development" of the successor to the space shuttle, which ended its final mission on July 21, 2011.

Harris, the first African American to perform a spacewalk, flew on two shuttle missions. Whitson, set to command Axiom Mission 4, holds the record for most time in space by a U.S. astronaut.

The Space Shuttle’s iconic design (including the image displayed on the new $1 coins) frequently featured not just the shuttle itself, but its large external fuel tank and two solid rocket boosters.

From April 1981 through July 2011, the shuttle flew from two Florida launch pads on 135 missions and returned to a landing at Kennedy Space Center on 78 of those flights.