<P> Astronaut Michael Massimino who flew on STS - 125 mission became the first person to use Twitter in space in May 2009 . </P> <P> Having flown aboard Atlantis as part of the STS - 132 crew in May 2010 and Discovery as part of the STS - 133 crew in February / March 2011, Stephen Bowen became the first NASA astronaut to be launched on consecutive missions . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> #</Th> <Th> Launch date </Th> <Th> Designation </Th> <Th> Launch Pad </Th> <Th> Landing Location </Th> <Th> Duration </Th> <Th> Distance </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 3 October 1985 </Td> <Td> STS - 51 - J </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 4 days, 1 hour, 44 minutes, 38 seconds </Td> <Td> 1,682,641 miles (2,707,948 km) </Td> <Td> First Atlantis mission; mission dedicated to Department of Defense . Deployed two DSCS - III (Defense Satellite Communications System) satellites into stationary orbit . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 26 November 1985 </Td> <Td> STS - 61 - B </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 6 days, 21 hours, 4 minutes, 49 seconds </Td> <Td> 2,466,956 miles (3,970,181 km) </Td> <Td> Three communications satellites deployed: MORELOS - B, AUSSAT - 2 and SATCOM KU - 2 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 2 December 1988 </Td> <Td> STS - 27 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 4 days, 9 hours, 5 minutes, 37 seconds </Td> <Td> 1,812,075 miles (2,916,252 km) </Td> <Td> Mission dedicated to Department of Defense . Deployed the Lacrosse 1 satellite, for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Atlantis' Thermal Protection System tiles sustained unusually severe damage during the flight; over 700 damaged tiles were noted, and one tile was missing . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 4 May 1989 </Td> <Td> STS - 30 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 4 days, 0 hours, 56 minutes, 28 seconds </Td> <Td> 1,477,500 miles (2,377,800 km) </Td> <Td> Deployed the Magellan probe bound for Venus . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 5 </Td> <Td> 18 October 1989 </Td> <Td> STS - 34 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 4 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes, 20 seconds </Td> <Td> 1,800,000 miles (2,900,000 km) </Td> <Td> Deployed the Galileo probe bound for Jupiter . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6 </Td> <Td> 28 February 1990 </Td> <Td> STS - 36 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 4 days, 10 hours, 18 minutes, 22 seconds </Td> <Td> 1,837,962 miles (2,957,913 km) </Td> <Td> Mission dedicated to Department of Defense . STS - 36 deployed a single satellite believed to have been a Misty reconnaissance satellite . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7 </Td> <Td> 15 November 1990 </Td> <Td> STS - 38 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 4 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes, 31 seconds </Td> <Td> 2,045,056 miles (3,291,199 km) </Td> <Td> Mission dedicated to Department of Defense . Deployed USA - 67 believed to have been a secret Magnum ELINT (ELectronic INTtelligence) gathering satellite . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 8 </Td> <Td> 5 April 1991 </Td> <Td> STS - 37 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 5 days, 23 hours, 32 minutes, 44 seconds </Td> <Td> 2,487,075 miles (4,002,559 km) </Td> <Td> Deployed Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the second of the Great Observatories program after the first successful unscheduled EVA in the Shuttle program to deploy GRO's data antenna . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 9 </Td> <Td> 2 August 1991 </Td> <Td> STS - 43 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 8 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes, 25 seconds </Td> <Td> 3,700,400 miles (5,955,200 km) </Td> <Td> Deployed Tracking and Data Relay Satellite - 5 (TDRS - 5 or TDRS - E). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 10 </Td> <Td> 24 November 1991 </Td> <Td> STS - 44 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 6 days, 22 hours, 50 minutes, 44 seconds </Td> <Td> 2,890,067 miles (4,651,112 km) </Td> <Td> Mission dedicated to Department of Defense . The unclassified payload included a Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite deployed on flight day one . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 11 </Td> <Td> 24 March 1992 </Td> <Td> STS - 45 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 8 days, 22 hours, 9 minutes 28 seconds </Td> <Td> 3,274,946 miles (5,270,515 km) </Td> <Td> Carried first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS - 1). ATLAS - 1 equipped with 12 instruments conducted studies in atmospheric chemistry, solar radiation, space plasma physics and ultraviolet astronomy . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 12 </Td> <Td> 31 July 1992 </Td> <Td> STS - 46 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 7 days, 23 hours, 15 minutes, 3 seconds </Td> <Td> 3,321,007 miles (5,344,643 km) </Td> <Td> Deployed the Tethered Satellite System (TSS), a joint NASA / Italian Space Agency experiment . The satellite only reached a maximum of 860 feet (260 m) instead of 12.5 miles (20.1 km), because of a jammed tether line . The European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) satellite was deployed for the European Space Agency (ESA). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 13 </Td> <Td> 3 November 1994 </Td> <Td> STS - 66 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 10 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes, 2 seconds </Td> <Td> 4,554,791 miles (7,330,226 km) </Td> <Td> Carried Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Sciences--3 (ATLAS - 03) to study the energy of the sun and how it affects the Earth's climate and environment . In addition, STS - 66 included deployment and retrieval of the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometer Telescope for Atmosphere (CRISTA) to explore the variability of the atmosphere and provide measurements . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 14 </Td> <Td> 29 June 1995 </Td> <Td> STS - 71 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 9 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, 17 seconds </Td> <Td> 4,100,000 miles (6,600,000 km) </Td> <Td> First shuttle docking with space station Mir . 100th U.S manned space flight . Atlantis transported two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to Mir and returned astronaut Norman Thagard and cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov . The joint U.S - Russian crew performed life sciences investigations aboard SPACELAB / Mir . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 15 </Td> <Td> 12 November 1995 </Td> <Td> STS - 74 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 8 days, 4 hours, 31 minutes, 42 seconds </Td> <Td> 3,400,000 miles (5,500,000 km) </Td> <Td> Carried docking module to Mir and docked to the Kristall module . During the three days of combined shuttle - Mir operations, Atlantis's crew transferred water, supplies, equipment and two new solar arrays to upgrade Mir . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 16 </Td> <Td> 22 March 1996 </Td> <Td> STS - 76 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 9 days, 5 hours, 16 minutes, 48 seconds </Td> <Td> 3,800,000 miles (6,100,000 km) </Td> <Td> Rendezvous with Mir, including crew transfer of Shannon Lucid . STS - 76 marked first flight of SPACEHAB pressurized module to support Shuttle - Mir dockings . Spacewalkers Linda Godwin and Michael Clifford conducted the first U.S. extravehicular activity (EVA) around the two mated spacecraft . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 17 </Td> <Td> 16 September 1996 </Td> <Td> STS - 79 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 10 days, 3 hours, 19 minutes, 28 seconds </Td> <Td> 3,900,000 miles (6,300,000 km) </Td> <Td> Rendezvous with Mir, including crew transfer of Shannon Lucid and John Blaha . First shuttle mission to the fully completed Mir in its final configuration . STS - 79 also marked second flight of SPACEHAB module in support of Shuttle - Mir activities and first flight of SPACEHAB Double Module configuration . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 18 </Td> <Td> 12 January 1997 </Td> <Td> STS - 81 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 10 days, 4 hours, 56 minutes, 30 seconds </Td> <Td> 3,900,000 miles (6,300,000 km) </Td> <Td> Rendezvous with Mir, including crew transfer of John Blaha and Jerry Linenger . Carried the SPACEHAB double module and during five days of docked operations with Mir, the crews transferred water and supplies . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 19 </Td> <Td> 15 May 1997 </Td> <Td> STS - 84 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 9 days, 5 hours, 20 minutes, 47 seconds </Td> <Td> 3,600,000 miles (5,800,000 km) </Td> <Td> Rendezvous with Mir, including crew transfer of Jerry Linenger and Michael Foale . Carried the SPACEHAB double module . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 20 </Td> <Td> 25 September 1997 </Td> <Td> STS - 86 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 10 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, 12 seconds </Td> <Td> 4,225,000 miles (6,799,000 km) </Td> <Td> Rendezvous with Mir, including crew transfer of Michael Foale and David A. Wolf . Highlights of STS - 86 included five days of docked operations and the first joint U.S. - Russian spacewalk during a shuttle mission conducted by cosmonaut Vladimir Titov and astronaut Scott Parazynski . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 21 </Td> <Td> 19 May 2000 </Td> <Td> STS - 101 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 9 days, 21 hours, 10 minutes, 10 seconds </Td> <Td> 5,076,281 miles (8,169,482 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station resupply mission with supplies carried up using a SPACEHAB double module and SPACEHAB Integrated Cargo Carrier pallet . Astronauts James Voss and Jeffrey Williams performed a spacewalk and Atlantis also reboosted the ISS . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 22 </Td> <Td> 8 September 2000 </Td> <Td> STS - 106 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 11 days, 19 hours, 12 minutes, 15 seconds </Td> <Td> 4,919,243 miles (7,916,754 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station resupply mission . STS - 106 utilized the SPACEHAB Double Module and the Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) to bring supplies to the ISS . The mission also included two spacewalks . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 23 </Td> <Td> 7 February 2001 </Td> <Td> STS - 98 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 12 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes </Td> <Td> 5,369,576 miles (8,641,495 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station assembly mission (carried and assembled the Destiny Laboratory Module). Three spacewalks including the 100th in the U.S. manned spaceflight program were conducted to complete its assembly . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 24 </Td> <Td> 12 July 2001 </Td> <Td> STS - 104 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 12 days, 18 hours, 36 minutes, 39 seconds </Td> <Td> 5,309,429 miles (8,544,698 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station assembly mission (carried and assembled the Quest Joint Airlock). Astronauts Michael Gernhardt and James Reilly conducted three space walks while Atlantis was docked to the ISS . STS - 104 was the first shuttle mission to fly with a "Block II" SSME . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 25 </Td> <Td> 8 April 2002 </Td> <Td> STS - 110 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 10 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes, 48 seconds </Td> <Td> 4,525,299 miles (7,282,763 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station assembly mission (carried and assembled the S0 truss segment) which forms the backbone of the truss structure on the ISS . STS - 110 also delivered the Mobile Transporter (MT). Four spacewalks were also conducted in support of ISS construction . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 26 </Td> <Td> 7 October 2002 </Td> <Td> STS - 112 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, 44 seconds </Td> <Td> 4,513,015 miles (7,262,994 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station assembly mission (carried and assembled the S1 truss segment). Atlantis also delivered the Crew Equipment Translation Aid (CETA). Astronauts David Wolf and Piers Sellers conducted three spacewalks . A camera mounted to the shuttle's external tank captured the ascent to orbit . This was the first time such footage was recorded . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 27 </Td> <Td> 9 September 2006 </Td> <Td> STS - 115 </Td> <Td> 39B </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 11 days, 19 hours, 6 minutes, 35 seconds </Td> <Td> 4,910,288 miles (7,902,343 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station resupply and construction (P3 and P4 truss segments, solar arrays 2A and 4A and batteries). STS - 115 was the first assembly mission to the ISS after the Columbia disaster . A total of three spacewalks were performed, during which the crew connected the systems on the installed trusses, prepared them for deployment and did other maintenance work on the ISS . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 28 </Td> <Td> 8 June 2007 </Td> <Td> STS - 117 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 13 days, 20 hours, 12 minutes, 44 seconds </Td> <Td> 5,809,363 miles (9,349,263 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station resupply and construction (S3 and S4 truss and a set of solar arrays segments) The launch of STS - 117 marked the 250th orbital human spaceflight . STS - 117 brought Expedition 15 crewmember Clayton Anderson to the ISS, and returned with Sunita Williams . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 29 </Td> <Td> 7 February 2008 </Td> <Td> STS - 122 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 12 days, 18 hours, 21 minutes, 50 seconds </Td> <Td> 5,296,842 miles (8,524,441 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station construction (Columbus laboratory). STS - 122 carried ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts, a French Flight Engineer representing ESA to the ISS and returned Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Daniel M. Tani to Earth . Three spacewalks were performed by mission specialists Rex Walheim and Stanley Love . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 30 </Td> <Td> 11 May 2009 </Td> <Td> STS - 125 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> Edwards AFB </Td> <Td> 12 days, 21 hours, 37 minutes, 9 seconds </Td> <Td> 5,276,000 miles (8,491,000 km) </Td> <Td> Final Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 . Atlantis carried two new instruments to the Hubble Space Telescope, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3 . The mission also replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor, six gyroscopes, and two battery unit modules . The mission included five spacewalks totaling 37 hours . STS - 125 carried an IMAX camera to document the progress of the mission . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 31 </Td> <Td> 16 November 2009 </Td> <Td> STS - 129 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 10 days, 19 hours, 16 minutes, 13 seconds </Td> <Td> 4,490,138 miles (7,226,177 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station resupply and construction (ELC - 1 / ELC - 2). STS - 129 was the first flight of an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier and focused on staging spare components outside the space station . The mission included three spacewalks . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 32 </Td> <Td> 14 May 2010 </Td> <Td> STS - 132 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 11 days, 18 hours, 29 minutes, 09 seconds </Td> <Td> 4,879,978 miles (7,853,563 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station construction (Mini-Research Module 1 and the cargo pallet, Integrated Cargo Carrier - Vertical Light Deployable (ICC - VLD)). The mission included three spacewalks . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 33 </Td> <Td> 8 July 2011 </Td> <Td> STS - 135 </Td> <Td> 39A </Td> <Td> KSC </Td> <Td> 12 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes, 50 seconds </Td> <Td> 5,284,862 miles (8,505,161 km) </Td> <Td> International Space Station resupply using the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module and the Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier (LMC). The failed ammonia pump module that was replaced in August 2010 returned inside Atlantis' payload bay . This was the final mission of Space Shuttle Atlantis and the last mission for the Space Shuttle Program . STS - 135 flew with a crew of four astronauts; the reduced crew size allowed for rescue by regularly scheduled Soyuz missions if necessary . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> #</Th> <Th> Launch date </Th> <Th> Designation </Th> <Th> Launch Pad </Th> <Th> Landing Location </Th> <Th> Duration </Th> <Th> Distance </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr>

Nasa space shuttle's final voyage of atlantis