For Atlantis, the last decade of her career would be marked with many more triumphs as she joined her sisters in the most ambitious project in space to date: construction of the International Space Station. This would mean dodging the order for retirement a whooping two times to become the only Space Shuttle orbiter with three penultimate flights and two “final” flights.
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With Atlantis’s early years behind her, the middle years of OV-104’s impressive career would serve…
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The Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis, in many ways the middle-child orbiter of the Space Shuttle…