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NASA is ending its shuttle program with Atlantis' successful space station re-supply mission.

With the new TGV links between Frankfurt and Paris (now 4 hours 10 minutes, down from over 6 hours) and Stuttgart and Paris (3 hours 40 minutes), Air France is ending its shuttle service to those cities.

Nasa is committed to ending its shuttle programme because the vehicles are too costly to maintain.

While the U.S. ended its shuttle program yesterday, other countries including China, India, and Iran have stepped up efforts to explore space.

NASA ended its shuttle program in 2011, and, since then, American astronauts have been hitching rides to the International Space Station with the Russians, on the same Soyuz rockets that have, since 2001, occasionally carried tourists into outer space.

The announcement means astronauts could be sent into space from Florida within three years, the first American-based space rides since NASA ended its shuttle program in 2011.

He noted that NASA had ended its space shuttle program this year, scrapped plans to return to the Moon and begun relying solely on Russia for launching astronauts to the International Space Station.

The flight is also the beginning of a new chapter for NASA, which ended its space shuttle program in July and is now turning to foreign governments and commercial enterprises for space transportation.

Connect to Today: In July 2011, NASA ended its 30-year Space Shuttle program and with it, terminated any plans for space travel in the near future.

Last year, when the Atlantis space shuttle ended its five million mile homecoming journey and landed on earth, it also ended 30 years of manned space exploration for NASA.

Just two years ago, the space shuttle Endeavour had just ended its last mission, and Atlantis had yet to launch.