In under nine minutes, Space Shuttle Atlantis accelerated from standstill to nearly 28,000 km/h on July 8, 2011, carrying four astronauts on STS-135, the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. The launch subjected the crew to intense vibration, heat, and G-forces, while the mission itself delivered supplies to the ISS and marked the close of a program that flew 135 missions, helped build the ISS, and deployed the Hubble Space Telescope. This matters because STS-135 ended the era of reusa

Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch | Historic NASA Rocket Takeoff from Kennedy Space Center