Shuttle makes final touchdown to end US space programme
The space shuttle Atlantis has landed back on Earth, ending the shuttle programme's last-ever mission.
The shuttle touched down at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 1056BST (0556 EDT; 0956 GMT), bringing an end to America's thirty year shuttle programme.
Nasa said the shuttle had fired the imagination of a generation.
David Shukman reports.
21 Jul 2011
- From the section Science & Environment