# STS-135 Atlantis' final tow back

- By: Kim Shiflett
- Date: Taken on 21 July 2011
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-2011-5779 http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=54981 on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback Machine
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-135_Atlantis%27_final_tow_back.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/2/27/STS-135_Atlantis%27_final_tow_back.jpg/1920px-STS-135_Atlantis%27_final_tow_back.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers accompany space shuttle Atlantis as it makes its slow trek from the Shuttle Landing Facility to Orbiter Processing Facility-2 for the last time. Atlantis' final return to Earth on Runway 15 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida occurred at 5:57 a.m. EDT July 21, 2011. Securing the space shuttle fleet's place in history, Atlantis marks the 26th nighttime landing of NASA's Space Shuttle Program and the 78th landing at Kennedy. Atlantis and its crew delivered to the International Space Station the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with more than 9,400 pounds of spare parts, equipment and supplies that will sustain station operations for the next year. STS-135 is the 33rd and final flight for Atlantis and the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/index.html.