NASA's SpaceX 33rd Commercial Resupply Services Rendezvous and Docking

The shuttle Atlantis launched from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center 10 years ago today at 11:29:04 a.m. EDT (1529:04 GMT). It was the 135th and final launch of the space shuttle program. See our STS-135 mission coverage: https://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135 | Spaceflight Now

On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles travelling through space. Space History Archives👉https://space-com.visitlink.me/RSUG9h It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Delta II rocket and spent the next three and a half months making its way to its orbital post near the L1 Lagrangian point, a point of gravitational equilibrium between Earth and the sun. There, the spacecraft is monitoring the stream of accel