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Space Shuttle Atlantis Touches Down, Ending an Era of American Manned Spaceflight
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comWell kids, it’s finally over. This morning the space shuttle Atlantis came to a wheels stop at Kennedy Space Center, ending NASA’s Space Shuttle era and effectively capping America’s Human Spaceflight program--at least for the time being.