April 12, 2011
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Awarded Space Shuttle Atlantis
Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (April 12, 2011) – NASA officials announced today that Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has been selected to permanently display space shuttle Atlantis upon retirement of the Space Shuttle Program. Atlantis, one of three orbiters in the space shuttle fleet, will fly the last scheduled space shuttle mission before being retired in 2011.