11. Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis

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Atlantis OV‑104
Atlantis launching STS-122 mission to dock with the International Space Station
OV designation	OV-104
Country	United States of America
Contract award	29 January 1979
Named after	RV Atlantis
Status	Retired. Displayed at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
First flight	STS-51-J 3–7 October 1985
Last flight	STS-135 8-21 July 2011
Number of missions	33
Crew members	207[1]
Time spent in space	306 days, 14 hours, 12 minutes, 43 seconds as of STS-135
Number of orbits	4,848
Distance travelled	125,935,769 miles (202,673,974 km) as of STS-135
Satellites deployed	14
Mir dockings	7
ISS dockings	12

The Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV‑104) was a Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States.^[2] Atlantis was the fourth operational (and the next-to-the-last) Space Shuttle to be constructed by the Rockwell International company in Southern California, and it was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida in April 1985.^[3][4] Atlantis was the only orbiter which lacked the ability to draw power from the International Space Station while docked there; it had to continue to provide its own power through fuel cells.^[5]
The last mission of Atlantis was STS-135, the last flight of the Shuttle program. This final flight, authorized in October 2010, brought additional supplies to the International Space Station and took advantage of the processing performed for the Launch on Need mission, which would only have been flown in the event that Endeavour's STS-134 crew required rescue.^[6] Atlantis launched successfully for the final time on 8 July 2011 at 16:29 UTC, landing at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on 21 July 2011 at 09:57 UTC.
By the end of its final mission, Atlantis had orbited the Earth 4,848 times, traveling nearly 126,000,000 mi (203,000,000 km) in space or more than 525 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
Atlantis was named after RV Atlantis, a two-masted sailing ship that operated as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1930 to 1966.^[7]

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