NASA Releases Administrator's Video About Final Shuttle Launch

WASHINGTON -- With the successful launch of the final space shuttle
mission, Atlantis' STS-135 mission to the International Space
Station, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has issued a video
statement about the program and the agency's future.

Bolden salutes the Space Shuttle Program and its many accomplishments
while also highlighting the human spaceflight missions yet to come on
the space station and beyond. NASA is facilitating commercial access
for cargo and crew to low Earth orbit and developing technologies and
capabilities to reach destinations in deep space such as asteroids and Mars.

To view the administrator's video message, visit:

http://1.usa.gov/nwhEIA

For more information about space shuttle Atlantis' STS-135 mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

To find out more about what's next for NASA, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/next

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