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Since April, NASA will begin sending four shuttles to the final

Unless there is a tropical storm, at 11:26 on Friday 8.7 (22:26 PM) will be one of the most sad moments of the year for Americans.

At 11:29 pm on July 8 (US time), the Atlantis space shuttle was last launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

A flight into space of millions of microscopic worms could help solve threats to humans when exploring space.

Space shuttle Atlantis is currently flying in a chaotic space - where thousands of cosmic debris move very fast around the Earth at nearly 20,000 miles per hour (mph).

Atlantis, the last spacecraft in the Space Agency's Space Shuttle (NASA) fleet, returns with a new mission to attract tourists.

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