June 8, after the originally planned March launch was canceled due to hailstorm damage on the orbiter and fuel tank.
It was the shuttle Discovery that took her to the ISS on December 10 2006, and Atlantis brought her home to Earth on June 22 2007.
Atlantis to be launched in June 2011.
STS-135 is the last space shuttle mission with Atlantis on June 28th 2011.
June 28, 2011. It will also be the last ever space shuttle mission.
Space Shuttle Atlantis Pre-Show - 2013 was released on: USA: 29 June 2013 (Cape Canaveral, Florida)
As of June 2011, only one shuttle is left to launch, which is space shuttle Atlantis, and is planned to launch on July 8, 2011.
The NASA shuttle Atlantis has never exploded. As of June 2007, its most recent mission was to deliver new solar panel arrays to the International Space Station. The shuttles Challenger and Columbia were both destroyed in separate accidents - Challenger in January 1986, and Columbia in February 2003. All crew were lost in both accidents. For futher information, please see the Links section.
the Atlantis docked with Mir Space Station on 29th June, 1995.
Last planned flight is on 26th February 2011 by Endeavor. There may however be another, but it has not received funding (08/2010) Possibly 28th June 2011 by Atlantis.
Atlantis will be the last Space Shuttle to go to space, flight number STS-135. Due for launch 28th June 2011. Endeavors last launch was on 16th May 2011 number STS-134. Endeavor is the newest of the shuttles, which was a replacement for Challenger and began operations in 1992.
She was twice on the space shuttle Challenger, in June 1983 on mission STS-7 and in October 1984 on mission STS-41-G.
The second Shuttle into orbit was the Challenger; the first was Columbiachallenger, June 1983