Space Shuttle Atlantis Timeline of Events

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Space Shuttle Atlantis

The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States...

Timeline of Events

1985

10.3.1985

The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J)

1990

11.15.1990

Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' launches with flight STS-38.

1995

6.29.1995

Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (''Atlantis'' docks with the Russian space station ''Mir'' for the first time.)

12.7.1995

The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.