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On this date: Nixon directs NASA to build space shuttle program

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On Jan. 5, 1970 , President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program.

It would be more than a decade before the first shuttle, Columbia , launched from the Space Coast .

The final shuttle program came on July 8, 2011 , when Atlantis took flight.

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English

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