Atlantis’s Final Landing at Kennedy Space Center
After more than 30 years, the space shuttle era has come to a close. Space shuttle Atlantis and the STS-135 crew landed safely on runway 15 at 5:57 a.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida, ending a 13-day journey of more than five million miles. It was the final and 133rd landing in shuttle history. The STS-135 crew consisted of Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim.
And now 8 years later, then pilot now commander, Doug Hurley, is on the first manned mission since sts-135 with Bob behnken. I'm glad to see that manned spaceflight has returned to the cape.
Anyone here after the Space X demo-2 launch?
Just to make it more difficult landing at night! Doug Hurley … gone on to pilot SpaceX amazing.
Thirty years of an overhyped, overly expensive, dangerous, and underfunded spacecraft come to an end, making way for a new era of commercial spaceflight and newfound innovation throughout the decade.
Did it have to land at night?
6:11 The most epic way to announce the Shuttle was coming back to Earth. Twin sonic booms