Editing Space Shuttle Atlantis (section)

==Crews==
[[File:STS125 crew portrait1.jpg|thumb|Crewmembers for the final Hubble Servicing Mission, STS-125 pose for a photo on the flight deck of ''Atlantis'']]

A total of 207 individuals flew with Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' over the course of its 33 missions.<ref name="Atlantis Legacy">{{cite web|url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-060210a.html|title=The legacy of space shuttle Atlantis|publisher=CollectSPACE|date=June 2, 2010|access-date=June 4, 2010}}</ref> Because the shuttle sometimes flew crew members arriving and departing Mir and the ISS, not all of them launched and landed on ''Atlantis''.

Astronaut [[Clayton Anderson]], ESA astronaut [[Leopold Eyharts]] and Russian cosmonauts [[Nikolai Budarin]] and [[Anatoly Solovyev]] only launched on ''Atlantis''. Similarly, astronauts [[Daniel Tani]] and [[Sunita Williams]], as well as cosmonauts [[Vladimir Dezhurov]] and [[Gennady Strekalov]] only landed with ''Atlantis''. Only 146 men and women both launched and landed aboard ''Atlantis''.<ref name="Atlantis Legacy"/>

Some of those people flew with ''Atlantis'' more than once. Taking them into account, 203 total seats were filled over ''Atlantis''{{'}} 33 missions. Astronaut [[Jerry L. Ross|Jerry Ross]] holds the record for the most flights aboard ''Atlantis'' at five.<ref name="Atlantis Legacy" />

Astronaut [[Rodolfo Neri Vela]] who flew aboard ''Atlantis'' on STS-61-B mission in 1985 is the only Mexican to have traveled to space. ESA astronaut [[Dirk D. Frimout|Dirk Frimout]] who flew on STS-45 as a payload specialist was the first Belgian in space. STS-46 mission specialist [[Claude Nicollier]] was the first astronaut from Switzerland. On the same flight, astronaut [[Franco Malerba]] became the first citizen of Italy to travel to space.

Astronaut [[Mike Massimino]] who flew on STS-125 mission became the first person to use Twitter in space in May 2009.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mike Massimino Becomes the First to 'Tweet' From Space|date=May 13, 2009 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/topics/people/features/massimino_tweet.html|publisher=NASA|access-date=February 25, 2023}}</ref>

Having flown aboard ''Atlantis'' as part of the STS-132 crew in May 2010 and ''Discovery'' as part of the [[STS-133]] crew in February/March 2011, [[Stephen Bowen (astronaut)|Stephen Bowen]] became the first NASA astronaut to be launched on consecutive missions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/feb/HQ_11-054_Discovery_Launches.html|title=NASA'S Shuttle Discovery Heads To Space Station On Its Final Mission|publisher=NASA|date=February 24, 2011|access-date=March 10, 2011}}</ref>