Search This Blog

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Atlantis history

This shuttle flew it's first mission in 1986 STS 51-J. It launched the Magellan probe to Venus on STS 30 in May of 1989, in October of that year it launched Gailleo to Jupiter on STS 34. It did the first shuttle docking with Mir, the old USSR space station in June of 95 and it did the final Hubble servicing mission on STS 125 in May 09.

This will be Atlantis 11th flight to the International Space Station.

No comments:

Post a Comment