Mission Milestones
The mission marked:
- 162nd NASA manned space flight
- 131st shuttle mission since STS-1
- 38th flight of Discovery
- 33rd shuttle mission to the ISS
- 106th post-Challenger mission
- 18th post-Columbia mission
- 35th and last night launch of a shuttle, 22nd night launch from launch pad 39A
- 2nd "descending node" entry since 2003
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“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)