This was better than any Shuttle flight with her would have been.
It is also 6th and last shuttle flight for the year.
The first shuttle flight in space was on April 12, 1981.
Of 32 shuttle flights, this will be only the third to land after dark.
But the space agency said these 18 or so shuttle flights would cost only $44 million each.
Consider this: it costs $200 million to make one shuttle flight.
There were no shuttle flights while the report was written.
What does the final shuttle flight mean for space exploration?
The current break in shuttle flights came as the space station project fell on hard times.
The space agency is planning four other shuttle flights this year.