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July 21st, 2011 – After greeting a gathering of NASA and shuttle contractor employees at a wheels stop event during the shuttle towback, the astronaut crew of the space shuttle Atlantis, say their goodbyes to the orbiter that they had flown into space just thirteen days earlier; and had brought back from orbit only just that morning for an historic touchdown at the Shuttle Landing Facility runway two miles to the north of here at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Even turned away, it was apparent that that they found it hard to say goodbye to this ship that had carried them on the last space shuttle mission ever.