Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV‑104) is a Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. NASA's Space Shuttle Program.

Welcome Home SPACE SHUTTLE Atlantis- You can’t miss the entrance to the home of space shuttle Atlantis: a mighty full-scale space shuttle stack of two solid rocket boosters and orange external tank. A drag chute is deployed by Endeavour as it completes a mission of almost 17 days in space on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. An overhead view of Atlantis as it … This 135th and final mission ended when shuttle Atlantis … See photos from NASA's final space shuttle landing on July 21, 2011 as Atlantis makes history to end the 30-year shuttle program during the STS-135 mission Space Shuttle Atlantis lands on runway 33 this afternoon at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Shuttle took about 8.5 minutes to accelerate to a speed of over 27,000 km/h (17000 mph) and achieve orbit. [/caption] An end to a remarkable era: the landing of Atlantis brings to a close the extraordinary and storied space shuttle program. At 5:57 a.m. EDT on July 21, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles on the STS-135 mission and final flight for the Space Shuttle Program. STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis.It was the fourth shuttle launch since the Challenger Disaster and the first shuttle mission since the disaster to have a female astronaut on board. Space Shuttle Atlantis takes flight on the STS-27 mission on December 2, 1988. Atlantis on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft in 1998. [/caption] An end to a remarkable era: the landing of Atlantis brings to a close the extraordinary and storied space shuttle program. Explore shuttle missions that secured the future of Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station. Stand in awe of this American icon at Space Shuttle Atlantis ®, permanent home of the orbiter. A ship like no other, the space shuttle launched like a rocket and landed like a glider while transporting astronauts to space and back for thirty years.

Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135 (July 21, 2011) The Space Shuttle orbiter is the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the Space Shuttle program. The Space Shuttle Atlantis landing in 1997, at the end of STS-86.