Image above: Space shuttle Atlantis launches July 8, 2011 on the STS-135 mission, the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program.Image credit: NASA âº View larger image.pace shuttle Atlantis completed the program on July 21, 2011, wrapping up the STS-135 mission with a predawn touchdown on the same runway where Columbia first arrived more than 30 years earlier.
Not to be confused with the neighbouring Romanian region of Moldavia. Moldova is a small land-locked country in Eastern Europe, north of the Balkans, surrounded by Romania to the southwest, across the Prut river, and Ukraine to the northeast.
In the unrecognized Transnistrian Republic, located in the eastern part of Moldova, people speak in Ukrainian, while Russian, Moldovan (using the Cyrillic alphabet) are the other two official languages. In some regions of northeastern Moldova, like Sloboda-Rashkov for example, people speak Polish.