Space Shuttle Atlantis - Specifications

Specifications

• Weight (with three shuttle main engines): 176,413 pounds (80 t)
• Length: 122.17 feet (37.2 m)
• Height: 56.58 feet (17.2 m)
• Wingspan: 78.06 feet (23.7 m)

• Atlantis was completed in about half the time it took to build Space Shuttle Columbia.

• When it rolled out of the Palmdale assembly plant, weighing 151,315 lb (68,635 kg), Atlantis was nearly 3.5 short tons (3.2 t) tons lighter than Columbia. Atlantis is the lightest shuttle of the remaining fleet, weighing three pounds less than the Space Shuttle Endeavour (with the three main engines).