Up for auction “Shuttle Atlantis Insulation Blanket” Flown Display #102 Measuring 8X10. This item is certified authentic by JG
Autographs and comes with their Letter of Authenticity. ES-4682 Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle
designation: OV‑104) is a Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle
which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by
the Rockwell International company
in Southern California and
was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in
Eastern Florida in April 1985. Atlantis is also
the fourth operational and the second-to-last Space Shuttle built. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J made from October 3 to 7, 1985.Atlantis embarked
on its 33rd and final mission, also the final mission of a space shuttle, STS-135, on July 8, 2011. STS-134 by Endeavour was
expected to be the final flight before STS-135 was authorized in October 2010.
STS-135 took advantage of the processing for the STS-335 Launch on Need mission that would have been necessary if
STS-134's crew became stranded in orbit. Atlantis landed for the final time
at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011. By the end of its final
mission, Atlantis had orbited the Earth a
total of 4,848 times, traveling nearly 126,000,000 mi
(203,000,000 km), which is more than 525 times the distance from the Earth
to the Moon. Atlantis is named after RV Atlantis, a two-masted sailing ship that
operated as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution from 1930 to 1966. |