POLICIES

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was formed in 1958 in response to the "Space Race" between the US and USSR. Each superpower believed that reaching space before the other would give them the upper hand and potentially superior weapons technology... Over 50 years later, in the Summer of 2011, the US Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down at Cape Canaveral, Florida for the last time, officially ending 30 years of the US Space Shuttle Program... A website about NASA and the ending of the US Space Shuttle Program.

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