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In the shuttle flight control room in JSC's Mission Control Center in Houston, NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria (left), deputy director of the flight crew operations directorate for International Space Station, stretches to shake hands with STS-135 ascent flight director Richard Jones. Standing between those two, from the left, are Paul Hill, director of JSC's mission operations directorate, John McCullough, chief of the flight directors office, and Norm Knight, deputy chief of the flight directors office. The men were watching monitors that showed TV coverage of the landing and post-landing activity of STS-135 -- the Space Shuttle Program's final mission -- several hundred miles away at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.