<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program" id="mwAf0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Space Shuttle program">Space Shuttle program</a>: <i id="mwAf4"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV-103" id="mwAf8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OV-103">Discovery</a></i> launches <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-121" id="mwAgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="STS-121">STS-121</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station" id="mwAgE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>. The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)" id="mwAgI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Independence Day (United States)">Independence Day</a>.<sup about="#mwt70" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_4#cite_note-11" id="mwAgM" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAgQ">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt67" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFWilson">Wilson, Jim. <a class="external text" href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/sts-121/index.html" id="mwCEU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"NASA - STS-121 Launch and Landing"</a>. <i id="mwCEY">www.nasa.gov</i>.</cite><span about="#mwt67" class="Z3988" id="mwCEc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=www.nasa.gov&amp;rft.atitle=NASA+-+STS-121+Launch+and+Landing&amp;rft.aulast=Wilson&amp;rft.aufirst=Jim&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fmission_pages%2Fshuttle%2Flaunch%2Fsts-121%2Findex.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+4"></span></span>