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the last flight of the US Space Shuttle

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is a return visit to the International

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Space Station for each of the four

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astronauts on board Atlantis sts-135 is

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the third station mission for retired US

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Navy captain Chris Ferguson I was born

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raised and got to spend you know all of

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my grade school in high school years in

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one place which is which was really nice

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we had a close-knit community in

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Northeast Philadelphia Ferguson admits

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being interested in rockets as a kid but

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not necessarily in being an astronaut it

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made me want to understand things that

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are larger than life and I think that's

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why I wanted to go fly for the Navy and

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land a plane on an aircraft carrier

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after high school

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Ferguson went downtown to Drexel

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University for his Bachelor of Science

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and mechanical engineering while earning

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his commission through the Navy ROTC

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program at the University of

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Pennsylvania he flew the f-14 Tomcat on

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deployment aboard the USS Forrestal and

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attended the Navy's top gun fighter

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weapons school earned a master's in

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aeronautical engineering at the Naval

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Postgraduate School served as an f-14

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weapons separation project officer and

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completed a deployment to the western

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Pacific and Persian Gulf aboard the

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Nimitz before being selected for the

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astronaut program in 1998 and getting

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his chance to follow in the footsteps of

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the great explorers of the past we have

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a home up there and we're destined to be

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up there and we're destined to go beyond

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low-earth orbit perhaps set up a colony

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on the limit and go on to Mars Ferguson

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was the pilot on the 2006 shuttle

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mission that delivered the p3 p4 truss

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to the International Space Station and

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commander of a 2008 supply flight that

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delivered one of his current crewmates

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for her long-duration mission this is

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the third trip to orbit for dr. sandy

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Magnus who was born and raised in

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Belleville Illinois medium sized town a

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lot of family living in the area it was

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really quite a nice place to grow up

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very solid well grounded community lots

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of very nice people and I enjoyed it you

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know we had st. Louis nearby if you want

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to do big-city stuff but we were yet a

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smaller town so we didn't have a lot of

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city issues and it was a good place to

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grow up as for her interest in becoming

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an astronaut she doesn't really know

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where it came from it's something that

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caught ahold of me when I was in middle

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school later or not and I've always

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liked science and technology in math

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it's always been fun to learn how the

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world works and to see new things and

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learn new things and there was something

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about flying in space that just grabbed

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a hold of me and didn't let go

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Magnus got her degree in physics at the

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University of Missouri Rolla but

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discovered engineering while she was

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there she finished a master's in

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electrical engineering at Rolla while

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she worked for McDonnell Douglas on

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airplane design and materials until she

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left for Georgia Tech to get a PhD from

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the school of material science and

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engineering she was selected for the

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astronaut program in 1996 ready for

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another new chapter in her quest to

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learn new things or finding interesting

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things about the virulence II of some

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diseases or finding interesting things

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about how materials operate or find

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interesting things about just fluid

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fluid dynamics and all these little

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pieces of information can be used to

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here on the ground to create things that

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can help people or technology that can

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they can do new things

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Magnus operated the space stations

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robotic during the 2002 shuttle mission

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that delivered the s-1 trust of the

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space station and returned in late 2008

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to start a four and a half month tour of

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duty as a flight engineer on expedition

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18 STS 135 is also the third space

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flight for retired Air Force colonel Rex

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Walheim of Northern California born in

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Redwood City and raised in San Carlos

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it's a town of about 30,000 people south

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of San Francisco it's a great place to

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grow up pretty normal middle America you

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know playing sports Little League you

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know football and I had a great support

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structure a wonderful mother and father

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that really really took good care of me

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and made sure I was I was going down the

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right path for school and everything his

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interest in the space program grew out

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of a love of flying and he got that from

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his dad

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my father was a b-17 pilot during the

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World War 2 era so he was a pilot and he

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loved flying and so he's take us to air

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shows and I think there's something

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about flying that sometimes runs in the

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blood and so that's something that's

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passed on from my dad to me with a

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bachelor's in mechanical engineering

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from UC Berkeley the ROTC student headed

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straight for Air Force pilot training

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but a diagnosis of a heart murmur ended

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that ambition and he set his sights on

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becoming a flight test engineer after an

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assignment as a missile warning

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operations crew commander Walheim was

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transferred to the Johnson Space Center

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in Houston for a tour as a mechanical

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systems flight controller he also earned

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a master's in industrial engineering at

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the University of Houston and then on to

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a management job at Air Force Space

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Command headquarters when he was

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accepted for the flight test engineer

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course a test pilot school doctors told

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him he did not have a heart murmur so

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his goal of becoming an astronaut

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re-emerged Walheim served as a flight

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test engineer and in management jobs

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with the f-16 combined task force at

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Edwards Air Force Base and then as an

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Air Force test pilot school instructor

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before being picked as an astronaut in

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1996 and getting the chance to make a

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lifelong dream come true it's important

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to keep pushing your boundaries just

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like the pioneers in the old days push

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the boundaries and went farther west and

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we're learning about our earth we're

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learning about how the human body adapts

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to space and and we're learning all

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sorts of ways physical activities and

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biological processes behave in space

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that are different Walheim did two

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spacewalks on the 2002 shuttle mission

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that installed the center section of the

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station's integrated truss structure and

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three more EVs on the 2008 flight that

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delivered the Columbus laboratory module

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Marine Colonel Doug Hurley is making his

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second spaceflight on STS 135 he was

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born in the small upstate New York town

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of Endicott and grew up next door in a

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pelican it was just a wonderful place to

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grow up it was a very small town it was

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fairly rural I had a lot of close

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friends played sports downhill ski did

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all the things that I think you know

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most folks from that part of the country

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do and and really enjoyed it

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he remembers being interested in

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spaceflight but never set himself a goal

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of becoming an astronaut I think it was

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just a natural progression of things

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being interested in engineering being

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interested in in aviation in space and

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it just kind of led me down a path into

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college in the military and then in the

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Marine Corps flying fighters and then

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ultimately as a test pilot and then to

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be lucky enough to get to come here

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early went to Tulane on a Navy ROTC

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scholarship graduating with a bachelor's

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in civil engineering

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he took his commission in the Marine

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Corp completed the basic school and

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flight school and made three deployments

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to the western Pacific in an f-18

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squadron when his commanding officers

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encouraged him to do so

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Hurley applied to and was accepted at

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the Navy test pilot school

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he served in an f-18 tes Quadron for

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more than two years and became the first

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Marine to fly the f-18 Super Hornet

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before being picked to become an

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astronaut in 2000 Hurley was the pilot

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on a 2009 shuttle flight that delivered

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components of the Japanese section of

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the International Space Station

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and he's eager for the start of the next

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era of human spaceflight that begins

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after the final wheel stop of the space

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shuttle program let's explore the moon

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let's explore an asteroid let's explore

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Mars to me that's that is the part of

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human spaceflight that that really is

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exciting and just to see what's over

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that next bend and around that next