The Space shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-37 to deploy the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
Space Shuttle orbiter (1985–2011)
🗓️ April 5, 1991 • 📅 ACF Date: 19910405
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 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.
