The final words of an era: meeting the last shuttle crew
In short: Watch the four astronauts who would fly the Space Shuttle Atlantis on its final mission, STS-135. This footage captures their final media interaction before concluding a program that defined space exploration for decades.
The video features Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The crew met with reporters at Launch Pad 39A following the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT), a critical final rehearsal where personnel familiarized themselves with launch procedures.
The mission marked the end of the Space Shuttle Program. In a symbolic gesture of this legacy, President Obama presented the crew with a flight jacket in the Oval Office on November 1, 2011, which featured patches from various previous shuttle missions.
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- Also: President Obama Meets Final Shuttle Crew - NASA
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