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==Assets and transition plan== [[File:STS-135 30 mins after touchdown2.png|250px|thumb|''Atlantis'' about 30 minutes after final touchdown]] The Space Shuttle program occupied over 654 facilities, used over 1.2 million line items of equipment, and employed over 5,000 people. The total value of equipment was over $12 billion. Shuttle-related facilities represented over a quarter of NASA's inventory. There were over 1,200 active suppliers to the program throughout the United States. NASA's transition plan had the program operating through 2010 with a transition and retirement phase lasting through 2015. During this time, the [[Ares I]] and [[Orion (Constellation program)|Orion]] as well as the Altair Lunar Lander were to be under development,<ref name="NTMP">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/202388main_Transition_Mgmt_Plan-Final.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/202388main_Transition_Mgmt_Plan-Final.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=NASA Transition Management Plan|last=Olson|first=John|author2=Joel Kearns |date=August 2008|work=JICB-001|publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration}}</ref> although these programs have since been canceled. In the 2010s, two major programs for human spaceflight are [[Commercial Crew Program]] and the [[Artemis program]]. [[Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A]] is, for example, used to launch [[Falcon Heavy]] and [[Falcon 9]].
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