NASA to Retire Atlantis Shuttle
From Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Atlantis will be the first of NASA’s three space shuttles to be retired, most likely in 2008, as the shuttle program winds down, a senior agency official said Tuesday.
Atlantis’ parts will be used as replacements by the remaining shuttles, Discovery and Endeavour, until the aging spacecraft are mothballed in 2010, shuttle program manager Wayne Hale told workers at the Kennedy Space Center.
The $3-billion Atlantis began flying in 1985, and probably will have four or five more flights to the international space station.
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