Mission Background
The mission marks:
- 149th manned US space flight
- 118th shuttle mission since STS-1
- 28th flight of Atlantis
- 21st shuttle mission to the ISS
- 1st shuttle flight in 2007
- 93rd post-Challenger mission
- 5th post-Columbia mission
Read more about this topic: STS-117
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