The agency is bringing its 30-year space shuttle program to a close later this year to focus on exploration missions to an asteroid and Mars. (Image credit: NASA)Įndeavour's 16-day mission is the 25th and final flight for NASA's youngest shuttle. Parts of the International Space Station and docked shuttle Endeavour are featured in this image photographed by NASA astronaut Mike Fincke using a fish-eye lens attached to an electronic still camera, during the STS-134 mission's fourth and last spacewalk - the last EVA ever to be performed by a NASA shuttle crew on May 27, 2011. " to see the shuttle crew visiting here when we were working, and I'm happy that the crew has completed the task and I'm glad that they enjoyed staying and working with us as well," Borisenko said in Russian. Russian cosmonaut and station commander Andrey Borisenko also thanked the shuttle crew and wished them well on the last leg of their flight. On behalf of Expedition 27, Expedition 28, we want to thank you for leaving the space station ready for its continued utilization, for at least the next decade. "We were just in awe of the finely oiled machine that was STS-134. "It was really great seeing you guys," Garan told Endeavour's crew before the hatches were closed between the station and the shuttle. The fourth and final spacewalk of the mission was also the last one ever conducted by members of a shuttle crew. Four spacewalks were performed to upgrade the orbiting laboratory. On its final mission, the orbiter delivered a $2 billion astrophysics experiment, called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, and a host of extra supplies to the station.
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