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Atlantis
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American Space Shuttle orbiter
Atlantis is a Space Shuttle orbiter built by NASA that flew numerous missions into space beginning in the 1980s. It represents an important chapter in America's human spaceflight program and was used for tasks like deploying satellites, conducting scientific experiments, and servicing spacecraft like the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 26484986
- Mass
- 77550
- Image
- STS132 Atlantis undocking2 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 17.25
- Length
- 37.24
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- Commons category
- Space Shuttle Atlantis
- orbits completed
- 4848
- event distance
- 202673974
- serial number
- OV-104
- wingspan
- 23.79
- first flight
- 1985-10-03
- native label
- Space Shuttle Atlantis
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Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Eastern Florida in April 1985. Atlantis is the fourth operational and the second-to-last Space Shuttle built. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J made from October 3 to 7, 1985.
Atlantis embarked on its 33rd and final mission, and the final mission of the Space Shuttle program, STS-135, on July 8, 2011. STS-134 by Endeavour was expected to be the final flight before STS-135 was authorized in October 2010. STS-135 took advantage of the processing for the STS-335 Launch on Need mission that would have been necessary if STS-134's crew became stranded in orbit. Atlantis landed for the final time at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011.