Space Shuttle Atlantis
Flights listing

Space Shuttle Atlantis

Section Title: Flights listing
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#	Launch date	Designation	Launch Pad	Landing Location	Duration	Distance	Notes

1	3 October 1985	STS-51-J	39A	Edwards AFB	4 days, 1 hour, 44 minutes, 38 seconds	1,682,641 miles (2,707,948 km)	First Atlantis mission; mission dedicated to Department of Defense. Deployed two DSCS-III (Defense Satellite Communications System) satellites into stationary orbit.

2	26 November 1985	STS-61-B	39A	Edwards AFB	6 days, 21 hours, 4 minutes, 49 seconds	2,466,956 miles (3,970,181 km)	Three communications satellites deployed: MORELOS-B, AUSSAT-2 and SATCOM KU-2

3	2 December 1988	STS-27	39B	Edwards AFB	4 days, 9 hours, 5 minutes, 37 seconds	1,812,075 miles (2,916,252 km)	Mission dedicated to Department of Defense. Deployed the Lacrosse 1 satellite, for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

4	4 May 1989	STS-30	39B	Edwards AFB	4 days, 0 hours, 56 minutes, 28 seconds	1,477,500 miles (2,377,800 km)	Deployed the Magellan probe bound for Venus.

5	18 October 1989	STS-34	39B	Edwards AFB	4 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes, 20 seconds	1,800,000 miles (2,900,000 km)	Deployed the Galileo probe bound for Jupiter.

6	28 February 1990	STS-36	39A	Edwards AFB	4 days, 10 hours, 18 minutes, 22 seconds	1,837,962 miles (2,957,913 km)	Mission dedicated to Department of Defense. STS-36 deployed a single satellite believed to have been a Misty reconnaissance satellite.

7	15 November 1990	STS-38	39A	KSC	4 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes, 31 seconds	2,045,056 miles (3,291,199 km)	Mission dedicated to Department of Defense. Deployed USA-67 believed to have been a secret Magnum ELINT (ELectronic INTtelligence) gathering satellite.

8	5 April 1991	STS-37	39B	Edwards AFB	5 days, 23 hours, 32 minutes, 44 seconds	2,487,075 miles (4,002,559 km)	Deployed Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the second of the Great Observatories program after the first successful unscheduled EVA in the Shuttle program to deploy GRO's data antenna.

9	2 August 1991	STS-43	39A	KSC	8 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes, 25 seconds	3,700,400 miles (5,955,200 km)	Deployed Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-5 (TDRS-5 or TDRS-E).

10	24 November 1991	STS-44	39A	Edwards AFB	6 days, 22 hours, 50 minutes, 44 seconds	2,890,067 miles (4,651,112 km)	Mission dedicated to Department of Defense. The unclassified payload included a Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite deployed on flight day one.

11	24 March 1992	STS-45	39A	KSC	8 days, 22 hours, 9 minutes 28 seconds	3,274,946 miles (5,270,515 km)	Carried first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1). ATLAS-1 equipped with 12 instruments conducted studies in atmospheric chemistry, solar radiation, space plasma physics and ultraviolet astronomy.

12	31 July 1992	STS-46	39A	KSC	7 days, 23 hours, 15 minutes, 3 seconds	3,321,007 miles (5,344,643 km)	Deployed the Tethered Satellite System (TSS), a joint NASA/Italian Space Agency experiment. The satellite only reached a maximum of 860 feet (260 m) instead of 12.5 miles (20.1 km), because of a jammed tether line.

13	3 November 1994	STS-66	39B	Edwards AFB	10 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes, 2 seconds	4,554,791 miles (7,330,226 km)	Carried Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Sciences – 3 (ATLAS-03) to study the energy of the sun and how it affects the Earth's climate and environment.

14	27 June 1995	STS-71	39A	KSC	9 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, 17 seconds	4,100,000 miles (6,600,000 km)	First Shuttle docking with space station Mir. 100th U.S manned space flight.

15	12 November 1995	STS-74	39A	KSC	8 days, 4 hours, 31 minutes, 42 seconds	3,400,000 miles (5,500,000 km)	Carried docking module to Mir and docked to the Kristall module. During the three days of combined shuttle-Mir operations, Atlantis's crew transferred water, supplies, equipment and two new solar arrays to upgrade Mir.

16	22 March 1996	STS-76	39B	Edwards AFB	9 days, 5 hours, 16 minutes, 48 seconds	3,800,000 miles (6,100,000 km)	Rendezvous with Mir, including crew transfer of Shannon Lucid. STS-76 marked first flight of SPACEHAB pressurized module to support Shuttle-Mir dockings.

17	16 September 1996	STS-79	39A	KSC	10 days, 3 hours, 19 minutes, 28 seconds	3,900,000 miles (6,300,000 km)	Rendezvous with Mir, including crew transfer of Shannon Lucid and John Blaha. First shuttle mission to the fully completed Mir in its final configuration.

18	12 January 1997	STS-81	39B	KSC	10 days, 4 hours, 56 minutes, 30 seconds	3,900,000 miles (6,300,000 km)	Rendezvous with Mir, including crew transfer of John Blaha and Jerry Linenger. Carried the SPACEHAB double module and during five days of docked operations with Mir, the crews transferred water and supplies.

19	15 May 1997	STS-84	39A	KSC	9 days, 5 hours, 20 minutes, 47 seconds	3,600,000 miles (5,800,000 km)	Rendezvous with Mir, including crew transfer of Jerry Linenger and Michael Foale. Carried the SPACEHAB double module.

20	25 September 1997	STS-86	39A	KSC	10 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, 12 seconds	4,225,000 miles (6,799,000 km)	Rendezvous with Mir, including crew transfer of Michael Foale and David A. Wolf.

21	19 May 2000	STS-101	39A	KSC	9 days, 21 hours, 10 minutes, 10 seconds	5,076,281 miles (8,169,482 km)	International Space Station resupply mission with supplies carried up using a SPACEHAB double module and SPACEHAB Integrated Cargo Carrier pallet. Astronauts James Voss and Jeffrey Williams performed a spacewalk and Atlantis also reboosted the ISS.

22	8 September 2000	STS-106	39B	KSC	11 days, 19 hours, 12 minutes, 15 seconds	4,919,243 miles (7,916,754 km)	International Space Station resupply mission. STS-106 utilized the SPACEHAB Double Module and the Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) to bring supplies to the ISS.

23	7 February 2001	STS-98	39A	Edwards AFB	12 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes	5,369,576 miles (8,641,495 km)	International Space Station assembly mission (carried and assembled the Destiny Laboratory Module). Three spacewalks including the 100th in the U.S.

24	12 July 2001	STS-104	39B	KSC	12 days, 18 hours, 36 minutes, 39 seconds	5,309,429 miles (8,544,698 km)	International Space Station assembly mission (carried and assembled the Quest Joint Airlock). Astronauts Michael Gernhardt and James Reilly conducted three space walks while Atlantis was docked to the ISS.

25	8 April 2002	STS-110	39B	KSC	10 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes, 48 seconds	4,525,299 miles (7,282,763 km)	International Space Station assembly mission (carried and assembled the S0 truss segment) which forms the backbone of the truss structure on the ISS.

26	7 October 2002	STS-112	39B	KSC	10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, 44 seconds	4,513,015 miles (7,262,994 km)	International Space Station assembly mission (carried and assembled the S1 truss segment). Atlantis also delivered the Crew Equipment Translation Aid (CETA).

27	9 September 2006	STS-115	39B	KSC	11 days, 19 hours, 6 minutes, 35 seconds	4,910,288 miles (7,902,343 km)	International Space Station resupply and construction (P3 and P4 truss segments, solar arrays 2A and 4A and batteries). STS-115 was the first assembly mission to the ISS after the Columbia disaster.

28	8 June 2007	STS-117	39A	Edwards AFB	13 days, 20 hours, 12 minutes, 44 seconds	5,809,363 miles (9,349,263 km)	International Space Station resupply and construction (S3 and S4 truss and a set of solar arrays segments) The launch of STS-117 marked the 250th orbital human spaceflight.

29	7 February 2008	STS-122	39A	KSC	12 days, 18 hours, 21 minutes, 50 seconds	5,296,842 miles (8,524,441 km)	International Space Station construction (Columbus laboratory). STS-122 carried ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts, a French Flight Engineer representing ESA to the ISS and returned Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Daniel M.

30	11 May 2009	STS-125	39A	Edwards AFB	12 days, 21 hours, 37 minutes, 9 seconds	5,276,000 miles (8,491,000 km)	Final Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4. Atlantis carried two new instruments to the Hubble Space Telescope, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3.

31	16 November 2009	STS-129	39A	KSC	10 days, 19 hours, 16 minutes, 13 seconds	4,490,138 miles (7,226,177 km)	International Space Station resupply and construction (ELC-1/ELC-2). STS-129 was the first flight of an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier and focused on staging spare components outside the space station.

32	14 May 2010	STS-132	39A	KSC	11 days, 18 hours, 29 minutes, 09 seconds	4,879,978 miles (7,853,563 km)	International Space Station construction (Mini-Research Module 1 and the cargo pallet, Integrated Cargo Carrier-Vertical Light Deployable (ICC-VLD)). The mission included three spacewalks.

33	8 July 2011	STS-135	39A	KSC	12 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes, 50 seconds	5,284,862 miles (8,505,161 km)	International Space Station resupply using the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module and the Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier (LMC). The failed ammonia pump module that was replaced in August 2010 returned inside Atlantis' payload bay.

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The longest mission flown using Atlantis was STS-117 which lasted almost 14 days in June 2007.

final_sentence: The longest mission flown using Atlantis was STS-117 which lasted almost 14 days in June 2007.