Atlantis Ready For Its Final Mission

3 - 2 December 1988 - STS-27 - 39B - Edwards AFB - 4 days, 9 hours, 5 minutes, 37 seconds - 1,812,075 miles (2,916,252 km) - Mission dedicated to Department of Defense. Deployed the Lacrosse 1 satellite, for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Atlantis' Thermal Protection System tiles sustained unusually severe damage during the flight; over 700 damaged tiles were noted, and one tile was missing.
4 - 4 May 1989 - STS-30 - 39B - Edwards AFB - 4 days, 0 hours, 56 minutes, 28 seconds - 1,477,500 miles (2,377,800 km) - Deployed the Magellan probe bound for Venus.
5 - 18 October 1989 - STS-34 - 39B - Edwards AFB - 4 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes, 20 seconds - 1,800,000 miles (2,900,000 km) - Deployed the Galileo probe bound for Jupiter.
6 - 28 February 1990 - STS-36 - 39A - Edwards AFB - 4 days, 10 hours, 18 minutes, 22 seconds - 1,837,962 miles (2,957,913 km) - Mission dedicated to Department of Defense. STS-36 deployed a single satellite believed to have been a Misty reconnaissance satellite.