Last Space Shuttle Mission Ends

Posted by NG Kids in News Bites on July 21, 2011
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Space shuttle Atlantis landed this morning, ending its mission and bringing the 30-year-old shuttle program to a close. The retired space shuttles Enterprise, Discovery, Endeavor, and Atlantis will be displayed in museums around the United States.

See pictures from the final space shuttle mission on National Geographic News.

Learn about the space shuttle program on National Geographic News.

See space shuttle pictures on National Geographic Kids.

Explore space in the Pluto’s Secret game on National Geographic Kids.

Photograph by Joe Skipper, Reuters

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Comments

  1. Molson
    July 25, 2011, 1:44 pm

    Yay! Space Shuttles are AWESOME! I love them SO much. I love it when they take off and go “brrrrrbrrrrbrrrr!”. I love it when they land and go “eeeeeerrrrrrrrrssscccreeeeccchh!”. But I LOVE it even more when they fly in Space, because that’s what Space Shuttles do when they fly. If I were a Space Shuttle, I would fly in space all the time. I would go up and I would fly in space but I wouldn’t stay too long because then I would miss my mommy. But it would be SO COOL and I would tell everyone when I got back about how awesome space is!

  2. kcg5n3rox
    August 14, 2011, 9:45 am

    So sad this is the last mission. I did a report on the July 1969 moon landing and have been obsessed with space ever since. I wish more shuttles could go up to space to explore the abyss of darkness. There is so much more out there that we just don’t know about yet, and I believe it is important to expand on our knowledge of the universe. Once we explore even more, we will receive more information on the galaxies and the heavens. That new knowledge would be provided to kids in grade school, who would then grow up and want to learn even more. I bet that by the year 2075 we would be highly educated on other life forms and other bits of information that are now to complex for our minds to understand. For now, they will stay mysteries.

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