STS-135 was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which was not flown.
Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011, bringing the Shuttle program to an end.
From left: Walheim, Hurley, Ferguson and MagnusSpace Shuttle program← STS-134
Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report, salutes the crew during their appearance for a taping of his television show.
STS-134 was the penultimate mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the 25th and last spaceflight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS L
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…of commercial rockets and spacecraft designed to transport cargo to the ISS. "We are hoping to fly a third shuttle mission [in addition to STS-133 and STS-134] in June 2011, what everybody calls the launch-on-need mission... and that's really needed to [buy down] the risk for the development time for commercial…
Endeavour (left) docked to the ISS, viewed from Soyuz TMA-20; AMS-02 is visible as a white box atop the station's truss, between its solar arrays
Pictured clockwise in the STS-134 crew portrait are NASA astronauts Mark Kelly (bottom center), commander; Gregory H. Johnson, pilot; Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency's Roberto Vittori, all mission specialists.Space Shuttle program← STS-133STS-135 →
Mission poster, based on a Star Trek promotional poster.
The crew arrive at the Shuttle Landing Facility in T-38 jets on April 26, 2011.