Mission Background
The mission marks:
- 152nd NASA manned spaceflight.
- 121st space shuttle flight since STS-1.
- 29th flight of Atlantis
- 96th post-Challenger mission.
- 8th post-Columbia mission.
- 8th visit to the International Space Station for Atlantis.
- 300th US astronaut in space.
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