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Feature: Last flight of the Space Shuttle: a 30-year retrospective Ars Technica By Matt Ford | Published July 7, 2011 11:54 PM The United States has been a space-faring nation for just over 50 years, ever since Alan Shepard's suborbital pop shot aboard Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961. In the following eight years the US, and mankind, ... See all stories on this topic » Ars Technica

Sputnick Dreams Lost to Space Shuttle Realities: Jonathan Alter Bloomberg Today's scheduled launch of the space shuttle Atlantis -- the final ride of the 30-year-old shuttle program -- isn't getting as much attention as it deserves, which is no big surprise. For all of its success in launching the Hubble Space Telescope and ... See all stories on this topic »

Helping space shuttles achieve liftoff MIT News Friday's scheduled liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis marks the beginning of the end of nearly four decades of collaboration between MIT and NASA on the nation's space shuttle program — a partnership that has shaped spacecraft design, operations and ... See all stories on this topic »

FilmOn.com Launches Space Program with NASA HD PR Newswire (press release) FilmOn.com/), the first and largest internet-based high-definition television service, announced today that the much publicized final Space Shuttle Launch will be carried on its Web and Mobile Based IPTV platform for free on the NASA HD Channel. ... See all stories on this topic »

Frank Beckmann America takes giant step back in space race The Detroit News Today's scheduled final launch in America's space shuttle program marks the end of a remarkably successful era in US achievement, and very likely, the beginning of Chinese dominance in space. President George W. Bush began the process of ending the ... See all stories on this topic »

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