Photos of the Space Shuttle Atlantis mission, and some of those that preceeded it in a 30 year program that ended when the final shuttle touchdown July 21
(In this May 13, 1992 picture made available by NASA, astronauts Richard Hieb, Thomas Akers and Pierre Thuot grab the Intelsat VI satellite from the ledges of the payload bay of the space shutle Endeavour in the first three-man spacewalk. The satellite had been stuck at a uselessly low orbit for more than two years. (AP Photo/NASA))
