Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-34

STS-34 was the thirty-first shuttle mission and the fifth for Atlantis. It deployed the Jupiter-bound Galileo probe.

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

• Space Shuttle

  Human Spaceflight
  The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
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• NASA Large Strategic Science Missions

  Exploration
  NASA's large strategic science missions or large strategic missions, formerly known as Flagship missions or Flagship-class missions, are the costliest and most capable NASA science spacecraft. Flagship missions exist within all four divisions of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD): the astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science divisions.
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• Donald E. Williams
  Commander
• Michael J. McCulley
  Pilot
• Ellen S. Baker
  Mission Specialist
• Shannon Lucid
  Mission Specialist
• Franklin Chang Díaz
  Mission Specialist

• Space Shuttle Atlantis

  Spaceplane
  Low Earth Orbit

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