Space Shuttle Atlantis

Lettuce get serious.

On this day in 1985, the space shuttle Atlantis made its maiden flight.

This was the fourth of five operational shuttles that NASA built.

What is the name of the final one? So Atlantis launched on '85, this day in '85.

Now I'm-

Good old Endeavor.

I'm looking up the Columbia space shuttle for all of us.

Yeah, that was '81 for its first flight.

This could easily be number one.

You see the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

You can stand beside the Saturn V rocket.

You can learn about Apollo, the shuttle program, current space flights, and people who actually climbed inside these machines and went into space.

me.

What are your enduring memories of that first trip to space aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis?

Oh, my.

How long you got, Craig? I mean, just the moment the engines turn off and we float forward in our straps because we're weightless and all that's taking place.