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Archive - Final Flight of the Space Shuttle 

NASA has announced that the final launch of a space shuttle is targeted for July 8, 2011, nearly thirty years after its debut.
Since its first operational mission in 1982, five orbiters (the crew and payload component) have completed a combined total of 132 successful flights to space. During this time, two accidents resulted in the death of 14 astronauts and loss of two orbiters; the Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003.
The shuttle system is composed of the orbiter, a large, outer fuel tank and two rockets. The fuel tank and rockets are disposed of before the orbiter enters space. The... 

Rene Burri 1980

USA. Florida. Cape Canaveral. Kennedy Space Center. 1980. 

Rene Burri 1979

USA. Florida. Cape Canaveral. Kennedy Space Center. Space shuttle... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1997

Boy with spaceship stenciled on his head. 1997. 

Rene Burri 1978

USA. Florida. Cap Canaveral. Launch site. Space shuttle "Columbia"... 

Peter Marlow 1985

GB. England. Liverpool. Tower Hill, Kirkby. Waiting for the WRVS... 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. Florida. Kennedy Space Center. 1981. 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. Florida. Cape Canaveral. 1981. 

Rene Burri 1979

USA. California. 1979. 

Rene Burri 1979

USA. California. Cape Canaveral. 1979. Spatial Center. 

Rene Burri 1979

USA. California. Cape Canaveral. 1979. Space shuttle. 

Rene Burri 1979

USA. California. Cape Canaveral. 1979. Space shuttle. 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. Florida. Cape Canaveral. Kennedy Space Center. The space... 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. South Carolina. Columbia. Cokpit Space Shuttle. 1981. 

Rene Burri 1979

USA. California. Cape Canaveral. 1979. The Columbia space shuttle.... 

Rene Burri 1979

USA. Florida. Spatial center. 1979. 

Rene Burri 1981

Rene Burri 1981

Cape Canaveral.The space shuttle "Columbia" before launch. 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. Florida. 1981. 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. Florida. 1981. The Columbia space shuttle. 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. Florida. The space shuttle "Columbia". 1981. 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. Florida. The space shuttle "Columbia". 1981. 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. California. The space shuttle "Columbia". 1981. 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. 1981. 

Rene Burri 1981

USA. Florida. 1981. 

Thomas Dworzak 2004

USA. Florida. October 23, 2004. Bush rally at Space Coast Stadium... 
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