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  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #24

    07.19.11 - The final shuttle crew’s final full day in space began with a fanfare – literally – and fond greetings from Florida.

  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #22

    07.18.11 - The final space shuttle crew is now just hours away from undocking from the International Space Station, one more time.

  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #19

    07.17.11 - Moving days aboard the International Space Station are nearing completion for the station and shuttle crews.

  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #20

    07.17.11 - The STS-135 flight day 11 wakeup call came from Houston, as always, but in a broader sense of the word than usual.

  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #17

    07.16.11 - All four Atlantis crew members worked Saturday to move equipment and supplies between the International Space Station and the multi-purpose logistics module Raffaello.

  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #18

    07.16.11 - After several days of wakeup calls from celebrities, the STS-135 crew kicked off their 10th day in space with a message from some of the stars of the Space Shuttle Program.

  • NASA Announces Winners Of Space Flight Awareness Award

    07.14.11 - NASA's Space Flight Awareness Program recognized 143 civil servants and contractors for their outstanding support of human spaceflight.

  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #10

    07.13.11 - The space shuttle Atlantis crew received a special wakeup call today to kick off flight day 6 of the STS-135 mission.

  • NASA Selects Nonprofit to Manage Space Station National Lab Research

    07.13.11 - NASA has selected the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space Inc. (CASIS) to develop and manage the U.S. portion of the International Space Station that will be operated as a national laboratory.

  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #09

    07.12.11 - Two International Space Station astronauts completed a six-hour, 31-minute spacewalk at 2:53 p.m. CDT Tuesday, retrieving a failed pump module for return to Earth, installing two experiments and repairing a new base for the station’s robotic arm.

  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #06

    07.11.11 - Space shuttle Atlantis’ crew will be getting down to the main objective of their mission today, as they temporarily install the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module on the International Space and begin unloading its contents.

  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #04

    07.10.11 - Space shuttle Atlantis’ crew began their third day in space at 2:29 a.m., just hours away from the scheduled final docking of a space shuttle with the International Space Station.

  • STS-135 MCC Status Report #05

    07.10.11 - Atlantis docked with the International Space Station at 10:07 a.m. CDT Sunday with a cargo-carrying module in its payload bay filled with equipment and supplies for the orbiting laboratory.

  • NASA Releases Administrator's Video About Final Shuttle Launch

    07.08.11 - With the successful launch of the final space shuttle mission, Atlantis' STS-135 mission to the International Space Station, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has issued a video statement about the program and the agency's future.

  • NASA Sets Launch Date For Final Space Shuttle Mission

    06.28.11 - Space shuttle Atlantis' Commander Chris Ferguson and his three crewmates are scheduled to begin a 12-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 11:26 a.m. EDT on July 8, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

  • NASA and DARPA Give Students Chance to Support Missions

    06.20.11 - NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are offering high school students the opportunity to design experiments that will be tested in space.

  • NASA Television Covers Station Cargo Craft Departure And Arrival

    06.16.11 - NASA Television will provide live coverage during a busy International Space Station traffic pattern, when one cargo spacecraft departs and another arrives.

  • New York Students Will Call Space Station Astronaut

    06.10.11 - Students in Otsego County, N.Y., will make a special call to the International Space Station and Expedition 28 Flight Engineer Ron Garan on Friday, June 17.

  • Unique 'Portrait' Of Shuttle And International Space Station Released

    06.07.11 - Newly-released portraits show the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade.

  • STS-134 MCC Status Report #33

    06.01.11 - Endeavour made its last landing early this morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, concluding a successful mission to the International Space Station and a sterling 25-mission history.