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Main landing gear wheels stop mark (click to enlarge):


Nose landing gear wheels stop mark (click to enlarge):
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You can find more pictures from landing in KSC Media Gallery



And 2 videos from NASAtelevision:

• 29 minutes, 50 seconds version of STS-135 landing:
  

  Atlantis's Final Landing at Kennedy Space Center

  
  
  
• Crew welcomed at KSC:
  

  STS-135 Crew Welcomed at KSC

 

[IronRain]

STS-135 Entry Flight Control Team Guides Atlantis Back to Earth

Shuttle Managers Address Media after Last Space Shuttle Comes Home

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[DaveS]

Atlantis have now arrived in front of OPF-2 following the tow-back from the SLF.

 

[garyw]

I posted this in the chatbox but I think it's too important a pic to leave there - Atlantis during entry as taken from the ISS:

 

[Poscik]

That is EPIC!

 

[ky]

Awesome pic.Seems their having a party up at KSC.

 

[IronRain]

Couple of more video's (and I'm sure more will follow)

OV-104 Space Shuttle Atlantis being towed back to OPF

STS-135 Mission Highlights

 

[T.Neo]

I'm not the superstitious type, but I wonder if the sun rising on the stationary Shuttle is a sign that things are just beginning, not ending?

Let's look at it this way. Atlantis saw her last sunset on orbit...

 

[Ripley]

I posted this in the chatbox but I think it's too important a pic to leave there - Atlantis during entry as taken from the ISS...

Sorry for my clear ignorance, but is that trail the deorbit burn or what?

 

[Kyle]

The trail is the plasma trail from the shuttle's re-entry.

 

[garyw]

It's also a timelapse of that trail which is why it's longer in the photo than it would normally be.

 

[kevin580]

STS-135 Mission Highlights

WTF, I can't see that here in Germany!!! x( wned:wned:wned: :sos:

 

[Moach]

is it just coincidence that the last shuttle landed on the anniversary of the first lunar landing? :shifty:

 

[Fabri91]

is it just coincidence that the last shuttle landed on the anniversary of the first lunar landing? :shifty:

And 42 years later!:uhh:

 

[diogom]

And 42 years later!:uhh:

What's up with 42? :shrug:

 

[Krikkit]

What's up with 42? :shrug:

Its the ultimate answer.

To life

the Universe

and EVERYTHING!

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Good overview video of ALL 135 shuttle missions by the Nature magazine!

 

[Kyle]

Long live the Space Shuttle! I leave you all on the first full day of the post-shuttle era with the iconic pictures.

Say hello to the future.

 

[agentgonzo]

Long live the Space Shuttle! I leave you all on the first full day of the post-shuttle era with the iconic pictures.
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I imagined the theme tune from ST:Enterprise playing whilst a montage of images and history of the shuttle programme play when I saw this.

 

[SandroSalgueiro]

Omg, those pictures are so nostalgic. I already miss the magic of the Shuttle...