STS-45
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STS-45 was a 1992 NASA Space Shuttle mission using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Its almost nine-day scientific mission was with a non-deployable payload of instruments. It was the 46th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th for Atlantis.
Components of the ATLAS-1 laboratory in the payload bay of Atlantis
Standing: Byron K. Lichtenberg, Michael Foale, David Leestma, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Dirk Frimout Seated: Brian Duffy, Charles BoldenSpace Shuttle program← STS-42 (45)STS-49 (47) →
Space Shuttle Atlantis
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Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired 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 in orbit in 2010, during STS-132
Space Shuttle Atlantis as it transits the Sun
Melted aluminum plating on Atlantis's right wing underside (STS-27)
Atlantis docked to the International Space Station during STS-132 mission