CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ? The astronauts on NASA?s final shuttle voyage floated out of the International Space Station for the last time Monday, leaving behind a historic U.S. flag and a commemorative shuttle model to mark the end of a 30-year era.
Atlantis was set to undock from the orbiting lab early Tuesday ? providing the last glimpses of a space shuttle in flight before the fleet is retired.
As the hatches swung shut behind the four crew members of Atlantis, it closed ?a chapter in the history of our nation,? space station astronaut Ronald Garan Jr. noted in Monday?s emotional farewell ceremony.
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