ShuttleAtlantis 01 The last mission of the Atlantis shuttle program ends the NASA

The launch and docking to the International Space Station in the last mission of space shuttle Atlantis is the end for the shuttle program (Space Transport System, or Space Shuttle STS) of the U.S. space agency.
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A shuttle program based on reusable spacecraft that has marked an epoch in the space age and technological thirty years after the first launch of Columbia on April 12, 1981 which was later joined by Challenguer, Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis, plus the ship trial Enterprise.

Despite the explosion of the Challenger and Columbia astronauts who left fourteen dead and a major setback for NASA, more criticism for its high cost, the shuttle program has been a before and after in space exploration with major milestones to building the international space station or the fantastic into orbit Hubble telescope.

After cutting the NASA budget will from now on Russian spacecraft to ferry new low-cost and reusable Kliper, the only to keep the International Space Station while NASA plans to ‘rent’ part of the program to private companies.

The cancellation of NASA’s Constellation program that could have resulted in the arrival of the next generation of space shuttles is the closure of the project and causes an uncertain future for the space age although President Obama said on Twitter yesterday that his country still has the lead but NASA should focus on research that “allows the man to go further in space exploration.” It will be difficult after the budget cuts, brain drain and the brutal decline in template space agency.

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