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[coffeene]

Thanks Atlantis!

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I got a pic!!!!!!!!!

post plz?

 

[Chub777]

No more shuttle.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Though lives were lost, the shuttle program has surely doubled or tripled the rate at which humans advance technologically and scientifically.

 

[Unstung]

The 25th night landing, 78th landing at KSC, and 133rd touchdown.

 

[ky]

I'll post the pic later,right now eatin breakfast.

 

[Codz]

Beautiful mission! Simply beautiful.

 

[ElPelado]

Am I the only one that's about to cry?

 

[ky]

No your not alone

 

[orb]

Official landing times:

• Main gear touchdown:
  MET: 12/18:27:56
  5:57:00 a.m. EDT / 09:57:00 UTC
  
  
• Nose gear touchdown:
  MET: 12/18:28:16
  5:57:20 a.m. EDT / 09:57:20 UTC
  
  
• Wheels stop:
  MET: 12/18:28:50
  5:57:54 a.m. EDT / 09:57:54 UTC

 

[Spacethingy]

I cried when they turned off the APU. Almost.

The dragon is dead, long live the dragon! (Hysteria, please ignore, wned

 

[orb]

NASA:

• RELEASE : 11-240 - NASA's Proud Space Shuttle Program Ends With Atlantis Landing
• RELEASE : 11-241 - NASA Administrator Commemorates Final Space Shuttle Landing

ESA: Space Shuttle final landing marks end of an era

 

[Kyle]

Saw Atlantis bank and fly over.. then BOOM.. BOOM.

Fergie is the last member to leave the space shuttle.

God bless STS!

 

[DanM]

The crew has disembarked. Long live Atlantis. Long live NASA.

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"Elvis has left the building"

 

[DaveS]

GSE Cooling was initiated at 1048 UTC(6:48am EDT).

 

[Kyle]

Everyone, welcome to the post-shuttle US spaceflight gap. NET 4 years long, but they promise to be an exciting 4 years. This year, we'll see another spacecraft leave Cape Canaveral bound for the ISS - Dragon. Next year, we'll see Cygnus and Dragon flying together to the International Space Station. Soon afterwords, CST-100 and DreamChaser will join them. Then, either Dragon, CST-100 or DreamChaser will take Americans to space again.

 

[orb]

Landing photos

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[IronRain]

STS-135 Landing - Call for Deorbit Burn

The end of the Space Shuttle: STS-135 last landing of Atlantis

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwAVD-4ruwU&feature=feedu"]‪The end of the Space Shuttle: STS-135 last landing of Atlantis‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]

STS-135: Space Shuttle Atlantis APU shut down

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNt-5dCeqWY"]‪STS-135: Space Shuttle Atlantis APU shut down‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]

 

[GoForPDI]

A very quiet landing, sneaking into the Cape just before sunrise.

I'm not the superstitious type, but I wonder if the sun rising on the stationary Shuttle is a sign that things are just beginning, not ending?

 

[agentgonzo]

Atlantis is out of the radio black out. :woohoo:

There isn't a radio blackout on reentry anymore as they use the TDRS.

 

[ky]

Here's the pic.BE ADVISED:My camera is not good at taking pictures in the dark.