How the Space Shuttle Atlantis Changed Space Exploration

Pin of the Month: https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow/products/scishow-pin-of-the-month-atlantis-space-shuttle-october From launching probes to ferrying experiment racks to the ISS, the Space Shuttle Atlantis has left quite the legacy on space exploration and scientific research. Hosted By: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/537939main_ss-launches-080311.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-51J.html https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/11/space-shuttle-atlantis-the-final-goodbye/ https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/fact1.html https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/galileo/overview/ https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cgro/cgro.html https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/this-week-in-nasa-history-atlas-1-launches-to-conduct-space-science-march-24-1992.html https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/mir/mir.htm https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-63/mission-sts-63.html https://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4225/documentation/mmc/mirmc-mir18.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/584726main_Wings-ch3e-pgs130-156.pdf https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-12-mn-48008-story.html https://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/lsda_data/dataset_inv_data/NASA_4_180_Day.pdf_NASA_4_MSD007_2013_282_081031.pdf https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2013/cg_4.html https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/history/h-b-lessons.htm https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=318 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=317 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=351 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=349 https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/10/atlantis-team-comforted-ksc-retirement/ Image Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2229.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/multimedia/atlantis/sts-51J-launch.html https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/robotics/imagegallery/r_magellan.jpg.html https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/images/history/October1989.html https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/april-7-1991-deployment-of-breakthrough-gamma-ray-observatory https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/this-week-in-nasa-history-atlas-1-launches-to-conduct-space-science-march-24-1992.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_189.html https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/international-space-station-43 https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/images/history/December1998.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/msrr_heats_up.html https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astronaut-jessica-meir-works-on-the-combustion-integrated-rack https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-62_Andrew_Morgan_takes_photographs_of_the_Earth_from_the_WORF.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/multimedia/gallery/launchhq.html https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/pollution-of-the-atmosphere-of-the-planet-earth-and-space-bzh-orj8ik7xlrl8g https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mir_space_station_12_June_1998.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MCC-1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shuttle_mir.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/space-shuttle-launch-gm172724618-5331067 https://www.nasa.gov/content/destiny-laboratory-attached-to-international-space-station