Mission Milestones
The mission marked:
- 166th NASA manned space flight
- 135th shuttle mission since STS-1
- 33rd flight of Atlantis
- 3rd shuttle flight in 2011
- 37th shuttle mission to the ISS
- 110th post-Challenger disaster shuttle mission
- 22nd post-Columbia disaster shuttle mission
- 100th day launch
- 133rd landing overall, 78th at KSC, 26th night landing, and 20th night landing at KSC
Read more about this topic: STS-135
Famous quotes containing the word mission:
“When you’re dealing with monkeys, you’ve got to expect some wrenches.”
—Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson, Objective Burma, giving a subaltern a mission (1945)