Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Space Shuttle orbiter, also designated OV-104. Atlantis was named in honor of a two-masted ketch that supported oceanographic research for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts between 1930 and 1966. It first flew on Oct. 3, 1985, as mission STS-51J. Other Atlantismilestones have included the deployment of Magellan (STS-30) andGalileo (STS-34), and the first docking of a Space Shuttle to the Mirspace station (STS-71). 
Current plans call for retirement of Atlantis in 2008, leaving the two remaining active Shuttles, Discovery and Endeavour in service until they too are retired in 2010.
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