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Space Shuttle Atlantis

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Atlantis
OV?104
Atlantis launching on the STS-122 mission to dock with the International Space Station in February 2008
OV designation OV-104
Country United States
Contract award 29 January 1979
Named after RV Atlantis
Status Retired. Displayed at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
First flight STS-51-J
3?7 October 1985
Last flight STS-135
8?21 July 2011
No. of missions 33
Crew members 207 [1]
Time spent in space 306 days, 14 hours, 12 minutes, 43 seconds as of STS-135
No. of orbits 4,848
Distance travelled 125,935,769 miles (202,673,974 km) as of STS-135
Satellites deployed 14
Mir dockings 7
ISS dockings 12

Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) is the fourth space shuttle run by NASA . It was named after a sailing boat used for ocean research by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute . [2]

References [ change | change source ]

  1. ↑ Gebhardt, Chris (31 December 2011). "Year in Review ? Part 4: Saying Goodbye to Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour" . Spaceflight.com . Retrieved 1 January 2012 .
  2. ↑ "Space Today Online - Space Shuttle Stories" . spacetoday.org . Retrieved 19 November 2010 .
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