On July 8th, 2011, the final mission of the American Space Shuttle program commenced at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission had a four-person crew - the smallest crew on a Space Shuttle mission since April 1983. The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched at 11:29 A.M., and returned to Earth on July 21, 2011, after a mission duration of 12 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes, and 50 seconds.
