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It's pretty amazing. Since 1981, the entire Space Shuttle program has flown 135 missions and cost nearly $200 billion, utilizing over 300 astronauts. It all came to an end today:

Space shuttle Atlantis touched down on the Shuttle Landing Facility's Runway 15 at 5:57 a.m. EDT on July 21. After 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles, the landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida brought to a close 30 years of space shuttle flights.

"Although we got to take the ride," said Commander Chris Ferguson on behalf of his crew," we sure hope that everybody who has ever worked on, or touched, or looked at, or envied or admired a space shuttle was able to take just a little part of the journey with us."

Indeed, we have!

Read more from the NY Times.

Read what's next on the multi-decade agenda for NASA.

And support our fantastic space program and our hero astronauts!!

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