STS-135 | Wikipedia audio article
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STS-135


00:02:53 1 Crew
00:04:00 1.1 Crew seating
00:04:08 2 Funding
00:06:06 3 Mission parameters
00:07:00 4 Mission milestones
00:07:46 5 Payload
00:08:31 5.1 Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
00:09:54 5.2 Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier
00:10:33 5.3 Robotic Refueling Mission
00:11:39 5.4 Picosatellite Solar Cell Testbed 2
00:12:09 5.5 TriDAR
00:13:37 5.6 Down-mass payload
00:14:28 5.7 Other supplies
00:14:55 6 Shuttle processing
00:17:37 6.1 Visit by President Obama's family
00:18:31 6.2 Rollover
00:19:42 6.3 Rollout
00:20:52 6.4 External tank fueling test
00:22:11 6.5 Payload canister
00:22:50 6.6 Terminal countdown demonstration test
00:23:44 7 Launch attempts
00:23:53 8 Mission timeline
00:24:02 8.1 8 July (Flight Day 1 – Launch)
00:28:31 8.2 9 July (Flight Day 2 – TPS survey)
00:31:52 8.3 10 July (Flight Day 3 – Docking)
00:35:36 8.4 11 July (Flight Day 4 – MPLM installation)
00:37:25 8.5 12 July (Flight Day 5 – Station spacewalk)
00:40:49 8.6 13 July (Flight Day 6 – Cargo transfers)
00:42:46 8.7 14 July (Flight Day 7 – Cargo transfers/Off-duty)
00:45:22 8.8 15 July (Flight Day 8 – Cargo transfers)
00:48:39 8.9 16 July (Flight Day 9 – Cargo transfers)
00:51:48 8.10 17 July (Flight Day 10 – Cargo transfers/Off duty)
00:54:33 8.11 18 July (Flight Day 11 – MPLM return, farewells/Hatch closure)
00:57:05 8.12 19 July (Flight Day 12 – Undocking)
01:00:18 8.13 20 July (Flight Day 13 – PicoSat deployment/Landing prep)
01:03:00 8.14 21 July (Flight Day 14 – Landing)
01:08:01 9 Welcome ceremonies
01:09:09 10 Wake-up calls
01:09:45 11 See also



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STS-135 (ISS assembly flight ULF7) was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which was not flown. STS-135 launched on 8 July 2011, and landed on 21 July 2011, following a one-day mission extension. The four-person crew was the smallest of any shuttle mission since STS-6 in April 1983. The mission's primary cargo was the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) Raffaello and a Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier (LMC), which were delivered to the International Space Station (ISS). The flight of Raffaello marked the only time that Atlantis carried an MPLM.Although the mission was authorized, it initially had no appropriation in the NASA budget, raising questions about whether the mission would fly. On 20 January 2011, program managers changed STS-335 to STS-135 on the flight manifest. This allowed for training and other mission specific preparations. On 13 February 2011, program managers told their workforce that STS-135 would fly regardless of the funding situation via a continuing resolution.  Until this point, there had been no official references to the STS-135 mission in NASA documentation for the general public.During an address at the Marshall Space Flight Center on 16 November 2010, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said that the agency needed to fly STS-135 to the station in 2011 due to possible delays in the development of commercial rockets and spacecraft designed to transport cargo to the ISS. "We are hoping to fly a third shuttle mission (in addition to STS-133 and STS-134) in June 2011, what everybody calls the launch-on-need mission...and that's really needed to [buy down] the risk for the development time for commercial cargo," Bolden said.The mission was included in NASA's 2011 authorization, which was signed into law on 11 October 2010, but funding remained dependent on a subsequent appropriations bill. United Space Alliance signed a contract extension for the mission, along with STS-134; the contract contained six one-month options with NASA in order to support continuing operations.The federal budget approved in April 2011 called for $5.5 billion for NASA's space operations division, including the shuttle and space station programs. According to NASA, the budget running t ...