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Atlantis Space Shuttle Retiring to Museum
Friday, November 2, 2012 21:10
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NASA's third and last surviving space shuttle moves to its retirement home after a 10-mile road trip from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Full story: Space shuttle Atlantis rolled into retirement on Friday taking a slow 10-mile ride to the Kennedy Space Center's Visitor Center. Atlantis ended the 30-year-old space shuttle program with a final flight last year. It will now be will the star attraction of a new $100 million exhibit at the privately operated Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, which operates the visitors' center, plans to hang the huge spaceship from the ceiling. The 154 thousand-pound spaceship will have its cargo bay doors open to simulate it in orbit. The Atlantis flew 33 missions and is the third and last operational space shuttle to become a museum piece. For more news and videos visit ☛ ntdtv.org Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me
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