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- STS-135 (ISS assembly flight ULF7) [ 3 ] was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. [ 4 ][ 5 ] It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which was not flown.
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