On the 10th anniversary of that last space shuttle flight, let's take a spacewalk down memory lane. The space shuttle Atlantis is photographed at its prelaunch at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 7, 2011. The NASA space shuttle journey began in 1972, when then-US President Richard Nixon announced the intent to develop the world's first inexpensive, reusable space shuttle for travel into space. first space shuttle flight, Thefirst space shuttle flight, STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) Columbia , took off nine years later from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 12, 1981. Here are eight pivotal moments from the space shuttle era.

Source: CNN July 08, 2021 18:11 UTC