Mission Background and Milestones
The mission marked:
- 160th NASA manned space flight
- 129th shuttle mission since STS-1
- 31st flight of Atlantis
- 31st shuttle mission to the ISS
- 5th shuttle flight in 2009
- 104th post-Challenger mission
- 16th post-Columbia mission
The STS-129 mission marked NASA's fifth NASA Tweetup, and its first such event ever held during a Shuttle launch at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. One hundred members of the general public, representing Morocco, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and 21 U.S. states, in addition to the District of Columbia, attended the two-day event and, for a time, the #nasatweetup hashtag reached #3 on Twitter's trending topics.
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