As the schedule for the final missions was stretched out, so were the preparations for the shuttles' post-flying careers.
It shuttled between post-Ellingtonian modernism and comedy, jazz and rock and blues.
Update: Atlantis is the final shuttle mission and the post was updated as such.
(Aside from a few later prototypes, the collection ends with post-Apollo projects like Skylab; shuttle and space station suits are not yet included).
For each post-Columbia shuttle trip to the International Space Station, astronauts have inspected the orbiter's underside for damage to the heat shield similar to the puncture in Columbia's left wing caused by falling foam.
It was a turbulent time: he was near the Pentagon when it was attacked on 9/11 and he accompanied Colin Powell, the then secretary of state, on his post-9/11 shuttle diplomacy in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and the Middle East.
Last month, it briefed Obama Administration officials on various alternative directions for NASA's human efforts in a post-space shuttle world.
All that is changing in the post-space shuttle era.
It included post-shuttle propulsion systems and crew-carrying vehicles.
He entered Jesuit training in 1618 and shuttled among various posts until religious hostilities drove him to Rome, where he was eventually installed in 1638 as a professor of mathematics at the Jesuit Collegio Romano.
