Flights of Atlantis (OV-104)

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1	 	 STS-51J	 Bobko, Grabe, Stewart, Hilmers, Pailes 

2	 	 STS-61B	 	 Shaw, O’Connor, Cleave, Spring, Ross, Vela, Walker.	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A	 11/26/85	 	 12/03/85 at EAFB	 	 		 MORELOS-B; AUSSAT-2; SATCOM; KU-2

3	 	 STS-27	 	 Gibson, Gardner, Mullane, Ross, Shepherd	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 	 12/02/88	 	 12/06/88 at EAFB	 	 	

4	 	 STS-30	 	 Walker, Grabe, Thagard, Cleave, Lee	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 05/04/89	 	 05/08/89 at EAFB	 	 		 M

5	 	 STS-34	 	 Williams, McCulley, Baker, Chang-Diaz, Lucid	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 10/18/89	 	 10/23/89 at EAFB	 	 		 Galile

6	 	 STS-36	 	 Creighton, Casper, Hilmers, Mullane, Thuot	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 02/28/90	 	 03/04/90 at EAFB	 	 		 DoD	 	 	 	

7	 	 STS-38	 	 Covey, Culbertson, Gemar, Meade, Springer	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 11/15/90		 	 11/20/90 at KSC		 	 		 DoD	 	 	 	

8	 	 STS-37	 	 Nagel, Cameron, Apt, Godwin, Ross	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 	 04/05/91	 	 04/11/91 at EAFB	 	 		 Gamma Ray Observatory		 	 	

9	 	 STS-43	 	 Blaha, Baker, Adamson, Low, Lucid	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 08/02/91	 	 08/11/91 at KSC	 	 	 		 TDRS-5		 	 	

10	 	 STS-44	 	 Gregory, Henricks, Runco, Voss, Musgrave, Hennen		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 11/24/91		 	 12/01/91 at EAFB	 	 		 DSP	 	 	 	

11	 	 STS-45	 	 Bolden, Duffy, Sullivan, Leestma, Foale, Frimout, Lichtenberg	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 03/24/92	 	 04/02/92 at KSC		 	 		 ATLAS-1	 	 	 	

12	 	 STS-46	 	 Shriver, Allen, Hoffman, Chang-Diaz, Ivins, Nicollier, Malerba	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 	 07/31/92		 	 08/08/92 at KSC		 	 		 TSS-1; EURECA deploy

13	 	 STS-66	 	 McMonagle, Brown, Ochoa, Tanner, Parazynski, Clervoy	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 	 11/03/94	 	 11/14/94 at EAFB	 	 		 ATLAS-3

14	 	 STS-71	 	 Gibson, Precourt, Baker, Harbaugh, Dunbar; Solovyev, Budarin (up to Mir); 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 06/27/95	 	 07/07/95 at KSC	 	 	 		 3rd Shuttle-Mir Mission - 1st docking

	 	 		 		 	 Thagard, Dezhurov, Strekalov (down from Mir)		 	

15	 	 STS-74	 	 Cameron, Halsell, Ross, Hadfield, McArthur	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 11/12/95		 	 11/20/95 at KSC	 	 	 		 4th Shuttle-Mir Mission - 2nd docking; docking module/solar arrays

16	 	 STS-76	 	 Chilton, Searfoss, Sega, Clifford, Godwin; Lucid (up to Mir)		 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 	 03/22/96	 	 03/31/96 at EAFB	 	 		 5th Shuttle-Mir Mission - 3rd docking; SPACEHAB; ESA's Biorack

17	 	 STS-79	 	 Readdy, Wilcutt, Akers, Apt, Walz; Blaha (up to Mir); Lucid (down from Mir)	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 09/16/96	 	 09/26/96 at KSC		 	 		 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission - 4th docking; SPACEHAB-D

18	 	 STS-81	 	 Baker, Jett, Grunsfeld, Ivins, Wisoff; Linenger (up to Mir); Blaha (down from Mir)	 	 	 39B		 	 	 01/12/97		 	 01/22/97 at KSC		 	 		 7th Shuttle-Mir Mission - 5th docking; SPACEHAB-DM

19	 	 STS-84	 	 Precourt, Collins, Noriega, Lu, Clervoy, Kondakova; 		 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 05/15/97	 	 05/24/97 at KSC		 	 		 8th Shuttle-Mir Mission - 6th docking; SPACEHAB-DM	 	 	

	 	 		 		 	 Foale (up to Mir); Linenger (down from Mir)	 	

20	 	 STS-86	 	 Wetherbee, Bloomfield, Titov, Parazynski, Chretien, Lawrence; 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 09/25/97	 	 10/06/97 at KSC		 	 		 9th Shuttle-Mir docking - 7th docking; SPACEHAB-DM	 	

	 	 		 		 	 Wolf (up to Mir); Foale (down from Mir)	 	

21	 	 STS-101	 	 Halsell, Horowitz, Weber, Williams, Voss, Helms, Usachev	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 05/19/00	 	 05/29/00 at KSC		 	 		 3rd ISS Mission - supplies; replacement gear

22	 	 STS-106	 	 Wilcutt, Altman, Lu, Malenchenko, Morokov, Mastracchio, Burbank	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 	 09/08/00	 	 09/20/00 at KSC		 	 		 4th ISS Mission - cargo transfer

23	 	 STS-98	 	 Cockrell, Polansky, Curbeam, Ivins, Jones	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 	 02/07/01	 	 02/20/01 at EAFB	 	 		 7th ISS Mission - Destiny Lab; SIMPLEX Experiments

24	 	 STS-104	 	 Lindsey, Hobaugh, Gernhardt, Reilly, Kavandi	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 	 07/12/01		 	 07/24/01 at KSC	 	 	 		 10th ISS Mission - Quest Joint Airlock

25	 	 STS-110	 	 Bloomfield, Frick, Walheim, Ochoa, Morin, Ross, Smith	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 	 04/08/02	 	 04/19/02 at KSC		 	 		 13th ISS Mission - S0 Truss Segment; Mobile Transporter

26	 	 STS-112	 Ashby, Melroy, Wolf, Sellers, Magnus, Yurchikhin	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 	 10/07/02	 	 10/18/02 at KSC		 	 		 15th ISS Mission - S1 Truss Segment; CETA Cart A

27	 	 STS-115	 Jett, Ferguson, Tanner, Burbank, MacLean, Stefanyshyn-Piper	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39B		 	 09/09/06	 09/21/06 at KSC	 	 	 19th ISS Mission - P3/P4 Truss Segm

28	 	 STS-117	 Sturckow, Archambault, Reilly, Forrester, Swanson, Olivas;		 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 06/08/07	 06/22/07 at EAFB	 	 	 21st ISS Mission - S3/S4 Truss Segment; Solar Alpha Rotary 

	 	 	 	 	 Anderson (up to ISS); Williams (down from ISS)

29	 	 STS-122	 	 Frick, Poindexter, Walheim, Love, Melvin, Schlegel;	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 02/07/08	 02/20/08 at KSC	 	 	 24th ISS Mission - Columbus Laborat

	 	 	 	 	 Eyharts (up to ISS); Tani (down from ISS)	

30	 	 STS-125	 	 Altman, Johnson, Grunsfeld, Massimino, Feustel, Good, McArthur	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 05/11/09	 05/24/09 at EAFB	 	 	 5th (final) Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Miss

31	 	 STS-129	 	 Hobaugh, Wilmore, Melvin, Bresnik, Foreman, Satcher; Stott (down from ISS)	 	 	 	 39A		 	 11/16/09		 11/27/09 at KSC	 	 	 31st ISS Mission - ExPRESS Logistics Carriers 1 an

32	 	 STS-132	 	 Ham, Antonelli, Reisman, Good, Bowen, Sellers	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 05/14/10	 05/26/10 at KSC	 	 	 34th ISS Mission - Mini Research Module-1; Integrated Ca

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 Carrier-Vertical Light Deployable

33	 	 STS-135	 	 Ferguson, Hurley, Magnus, Walheim	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 39A		 	 Scheduled for 07/08/11	 	 	 	 	 37th ISS Mission (final planned mission for Atlantis and NASA's

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 Space Shuttle Program) - Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module

Times Mission Launch Launch Landing

Flown Name Crew Pad Date Date and Site Primary Payload
Atlantis was NASA's fourth space shuttle orbiter to join the fleet at Kennedy Space 

Center in Florida. Atlantis also is known inside the space agency by its designation Orbiter Vehicle-104, or OV-104.

Construction of Atlantis began March 30, 

1980, and it rolled out of the assembly plant in Palmdale, Calif., in March 1985. It first launched Oct. 3, 1985. 

Atlantis is named after the two-masted 

boat that served as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts from 1930 to 1966. The boat had a 17-member crew and accommodated up to five scientists who worked in two onboard laboratories, examining water samples and marine life. Atlantis also served as the in-orbit launch site for many noteworthy spacecraft, including planetary probes Magellan and Galileo, as well as the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. 

Starting with STS-71, 

Atlantis pioneered the Shuttle-Mir missions, flying the first seven missions to dock with the Russian space station. When linked, Atlantis and Mir together formed the largest spacecraft in orbit at the time.

Atlantis is scheduled 

to liftoff on its final mission, STS-135, on July 8, 2011. It will be the final space shuttle retired from NASA's fleet.

KEY ATLANTIS MISSIONS

STS-51J – Maiden FlightSTS-30 – Deployed the Magellan probe bound for VenusSTS-34 – Deployed the Galileo probe bound for JupiterSTS-37 – Deployed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the second of NASA's Great Observatories Program

STS-45 – Carried first Atmospheric Laboratory 

for Applications and Science

STS-46 – Deployed the Tethered Satellite 

System (TSS), a joint NASA/Italian Space 

Agency experiment

STS-71 – First historic shuttle docking 

with space station Mir, 100th U.S. 

crewed spaceflight

STS-98 – International Space 

Station assembly mission, which carried and assembled the Destiny 

Laboratory 

STS-125 – Final servicing mission for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope 

THE NUMBERS 

(Prior to STS-135)

Total miles traveled: 120,650,907

Total time in space: 293 days, 

18 hours, 29 minutes, 37 seconds

Total orbits: 4,648

Total flights: 32

Total crew members: 203Mir dockings: 7

International Space Station 

dockings: 11

Satellites deployed: 14

facts NASA ATLANTIS (OV-104)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration