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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