1978: NOAA announces gender-neutral hurricane naming system
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On July 8, 2011, Atlantis was launched on it’s 33rd and final mission. It was also the last space shuttle mission in general. By the end of its final mission, the spacecraft had orbited Earth a total of 4,848 times, traveling nearly 126,000,000 miles or more than 525 times the distance from the Earth to the moon.
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