STS-132: The Mission Highlights

From pre-launch preparations to a safe landing twelve days later, the milestones of STS-132 and its crew's accomplishments are recapped in this comprehensive look back at the latest shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Along with Atlantis' launch and return to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, other highlighted events include the mission's three spacewalks, the installation of the Russian Mini Research Module-1, Rassvet ("dawn") on the ISS's Zarya module, and media interviews of the STS-132 crew of Commander Ken Ham, Pilot Tony Antonelli and Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, Steve Bowen, Mike Good and Piers Sellers. This was the final of 32 flights by shuttle Atlantis, completing a 25-year career covering more than 120 million miles.

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