STS-135 was the last mission of the American Space Shuttle programme, flown by the orbiter Atlantis. Its four-person crew, commander Chris Ferguson, pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim, delivered supplies and equipment to the International Space Station in a logistics module, to keep the station supplied after the shuttles retired. The flight was extended from the original plan, and Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center on 21 July 2011. The shuttle programme had begun with Columbia's first flight in 1981 and had flown more than a hundred missions with five orbiters, including the Hubble servicing flights and the assembly of the space station. After this, American astronauts relied on Russian Soyuz craft until commercial vehicles entered service.
Before and after
- 6 June 2011Discovery of C/2011 L4
- from 23 June 2011 to 25 September 2019Premiere of Suits
- 28 June 2011Discovery of Kerberos
- 1 July 2011Wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and Charlene Wittstock
- 8 July 2011Launch of STS-135
- 22 July 2011Creation of Kotlin
- 22 July 20112011 Norway attacks
- 23 July 2011Death of Amy Winehouse
- August 20112011 England riots
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- 24 May 1981Discovery of Larissa
- 22 August 1981Discovery of Pan
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- 26 June 2012Discovery of Styx
The era
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