By Kristen Rogers, CNN
5 hrs ago
On the 10th anniversary of NASA's last space shuttle flight, let's take a spacewalk down memory lane.
The origins
The space shuttle Atlantis is photographed at its prelaunch at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 7, 2011.
NASA/Bill Ingalls
July 8 through July 21 marks one decade since the last NASA space shuttle flight, with the Atlantis shuttle launching on July 8, 2011, to spend 13 days partly delivering supplies to the International Space Station.
On the 10th anniversary of that last space shuttle flight, let's take a spacewalk down memory lane.
The NASA space shuttle journey began in 1972, when then-U.S. President Richard Nixon announced the intent to develop the world's first inexpensive, reusable space shuttle for travel into space.