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English: This image features the space shuttle Atlantis's cabin and forward cargo bay and part of the International Space Station while the two spacecraft remain docked, during STS-132's flight day four extravehicular activity of astronauts Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen (both out of frame). Though three sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA) will involve only three astronauts (two on each occasion) who actually leave the shirt-sleeve environments of the two docked spacecraft, all twelve astronauts and cosmonauts on the two combined crews have roles in supporting the EVA work."
Atlantis
OV-104 |

Atlantis launching STS-122 mission to dock with the International Space Station. |
OV designation | OV-104 |
Country | United States |
Contract award | 29 January 1979 |
Named after | RV Atlantis |
Status | Active |
First flight | STS-51-J
3–7 October 1985 |
Last flight | STS-135
8- 20 July 2011 |
Number of missions | 32 |
Crews | 191 |
Time spent in space | 293 days, 18 hours, 29 minutes, 37 seconds as of STS-132 |
Number of orbits | 4,648 |
Distance travelled | 120,650,907 miles (194,168,813 km) as of STS-132[1] |
Satellites deployed | 14 |
Mirdockings | 7 |
ISSdockings | 11 |
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) is the last active Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States.[2] The Atlantis was the fourth operational (and the next-to-the-last) Space Shuttle to be constructed by the Rockwell International company in Southern California, and it was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida in April 1985.[3][4] Atlantis is the only orbiter which lacks the ability to draw power from the International Space Station while docked there; it must continue to provide its own power through fuel cells.[5]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Space_Shuttle_Atlantis
BBC News - Space shuttle Atlantis in historic final lift-off
The above postcard shows the Discovery Space Shuttle, not Atlantis, but hey!...
The stamp has a generic shuttle, unless some NASA expert begs to differ...or just differs.
The maxicard below has a stamp with the Discovery, but the postcard really shows the Atlantis!
See, you can't always have on hand, in due time for postmarking, the right stamp and the right postcard.
You just do your best, between the perfect TRIFECTA and the perfect DEFECTA, so to speak...:)
Trifecta: "It is also used to describe a situation when three elements come together at the same time."
I have created this maxicard with the postcard that I bought upon visiting this:
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Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!