Space Shuttle Program: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis" id="mwAXU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Space Shuttle Atlantis">Space Shuttle <i id="mwAXY">Atlantis</i></a> is launched on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-115" id="mwAXc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="STS-115">STS-115</a> to resume <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_the_International_Space_Station" id="mwAXg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Assembly of the International Space Station">assembling the International Space Station</a>. It is the first ISS assembly mission after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster" id="mwAXk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Space Shuttle Columbia disaster"><i id="mwAXo">Columbia</i> disaster</a> back in 2003.<sup about="#mwt77" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"SR1"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-SR1-13"}}' id="cite_ref-SR1_13-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_9#cite_note-SR1-13" id="mwAXs" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXw">[13]</span></a></sup>