In Focus blogs on a regular basis on TheAtlantic.com a series of photos about subjects that play in the news or related to it. This time you can watch a photo series named 'News photos - The History of the Space Shuttle'.
A short description of the photo series:
From its first launch 30 years ago to its final launch scheduled for next Friday, NASA's Space Shuttle program has seen moments of dizzying inspiration and of crushing disappointment. When next week's launch is complete, the program will have sent up 135 missions, ferrying more than 350 humans and thousands of tons of material and equipment into low Earth orbit. Fourteen astronauts have lost their lives along the way -- the missions have always been risky, the engineering complex, the hazards extreme. As we near the end of the program, I'd like to look back at the past few decades of shuttle development and missions as we await the next steps toward human space flight. [61 photos]
Read the rest of this photo report on The Atlantic - In Focus
Source: TheAtlantic
