Observer News: Atlantis: the final launch

Atlantis: the final launch
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Mitch_Traphagen on 09/07/2011 02:02:00
 
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
STS-135 Atlantis blasted off at 11:26 a.m. on Friday.  It was the 135th and
final shuttle launch, successfully capping off the 30-year-old space shuttle
program.  Atlantis is due to return to Kennedy Space Center at 7:06 a.m. on July
20, 2011.
For the complete story, along with the backstory, pick up the July 14 edition of
The Observer News, The SCC Observer or The Riverview Current.