Well, it seems that no one in The Daily Journal world has a memory of watching the space shuttle launches.

Last week, we asked you to write to us about your memories or your thoughts about the program as the very last shuttle mission does its work up in space.

Atlantis, which took off on Monday, is NASA's 135th and final space shuttle mission.

Four astronauts are flying on Atlantis and six on the space station. They represent the United States, Russia and Japan.

It is on a 12-day trip and is set to touch down back at the Kennedy Space Center on July 20, the 42nd anniversary of man's first steps on the moon.

Then Atlantis will be a retiree.

That's it. After three decades, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will no longer be in the shuttle industry. Atlantis is the last of NASA's three remaining shuttles to be retired, as the space agency turns its focus on expeditions to an asteroid and Mars. It will remain at Kennedy Space Center upon its return and be put on public display.

We'd asked for your thoughts and memories and even set up a special email,

shuttle@daily-journal.com. But maybe you were just too busy looking up at the sky and too excited about this last mission to drop us a line.

~Susy Schultz, managing editor