Space Shuttle Atlantis landed on runway 33 at Kennedy Space Center on May 26, 2010. The STS-132 mission lasted 12 days, during which the crew and the space shuttle traveled over 4.8 million miles.
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On May 21, 2010, an Ariane 5 launch vehicle placed two communication satellites into geostationary transfer orbit: ASTRA 3B, a commercial communication satellite for the SES ASTRA operator, and COMSATBw-2, a military communication satellite for the German Ministry of Defense. This was the first flight of Ariane 5 in 2010.
Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on May 16, 2010, 220 miles over the South Pacific Ocean.
This is an overview of the 12-day mission of the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. The Space Shuttle Atlantis carried the Russian Rassvet Mini-Research Module and an Integrated Cargo Carrier – Vertical Light Deployable pallet to the station.
STS-132 Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on May 14, 2010, from the Kennedy Space Center. The primary payload of the STS-132 mission is the Russian Rassvet Mini-Research Module. The Space Shuttle is also carrying an Integrated Cargo Carrier – Vertical Light Deployable (ICC-VLD). The members of the STS-132 crew are Commander Kenneth Ham, Pilot Dominic A. “Tony” Antonelli, and Mission Specialists Garret Reisman, Michael T. Good, Stephen G. Bowen, and Piers Sellers.
The Launch Abort System designed for the Orion crew vehicle was tested on Thursday, May 6, 2010, at the U.S. Army\’s White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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