NASA has discontinued its space shuttle program after 30 years. The Atlantis space shuttle landed on Thursday at Kennedy Space Center for the last time. Bob Cabana, director of the Kennedy Space Center, said efforts would now focus on NASA’s space station.

Bob Cabana: “We’ve got to focus on going beyond earth now. We’ve learned how to work in low earth orbit. We’ve got a lot more to learn about deep space and about long-duration space flight. We’ve got a space station there as a result of this shuttle. I think that’s got to be one of the shuttle’s crowning achievements, that world-class laboratory that we have up there. Now we’ve got to utilize it.”