Atlantis Lands, Shuttle Program Ends

As of 5:56 a.m. ET this morning, NASA's space shuttle program is history.

The space shuttle Atlantis has touched down without incident at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, bringing to an end NASA's shuttle program after 30 years and 135 missions. The four astronauts aboard taxied down the Kennedy Space Center's runway at 5:56 a.m., 13 days after blasting off to resupply the International Space Station and perform a number of experiments. With NASA's manned space flight program disbanded (for now) and hundreds of layoffs at the space agency, only Russia can now send astronauts to and from the ISS. NASA is said to be working on long term goals of landing a crew on an asteroid by 2025 (it's just like Armageddon, but real and without the terrible Aerosmith song) and then Mars in 2030.