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VOL. 6/ISSUE 9
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 2018
CELEBRATING THE
SPACE SHUTTLE DELVING INTO HISTORY OF FLORIDA’S — AND AMERICA’S — MOST FAMOUS VEHICLE
STORY ON PAGE 4
Atlantis rolled to its permanent home at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in 2012. The spacecraft made the final Space Shuttle flight in 2011. President Richard Nixon announced on Jan. 5, 1972, that America would build and fly reusable, horizontallylanding spacecraft as its next step into space. Photo by Bill Ingalls courtesy of NASA