Mission Background and Milestones
The mission marked:
- 163rd NASA manned space flight
- 132nd shuttle mission since STS-1
- 32nd flight of Atlantis
- 34th shuttle mission to the ISS
- 11th flight of Atlantis to the ISS
- 3rd shuttle flight in 2010
- 107th post-Challenger mission
- 19th post-Columbia mission
NASA arranged a Tweetup to cover the launch of the STS-132 mission. 150 people attended the event from more than 30 US states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The Tweetup participants met with shuttle technicians, managers, engineers and astronauts, took a tour of the Kennedy Space Center and viewed the launch of Atlantis.
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