USS Asheville (SSN-758) took over Houston's duties, and completed her planned mission.
The fourth planned mission, which would have been designated Soyuz 25 if launched, was intended to visit the station for two weeks in July 1977.
Technicians here recovered pieces of the panel scattered around the launching pad from which the shuttle took off on Thursday for its planned nine-day mission.
The orbiter and four of the crew which were due to fly the next planned mission would be retasked to the rescue mission.
That was the second flight of the space shuttle, and its planned five-day mission was cut to two days after a fuel cell gave out.
The Phobos-Grunt probe fell into the Pacific Ocean after failing to make it out of orbit on its planned mission to Mars.
At the time the note was written, STS-132 was indeed the last planned mission of Atlantis.
The Aurora programme has currently two planned missions, possibly in collaboration with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
The psychosocial experiment Mars-500 provides the ground-based studies to complement orbital research in preparation for a planned manned mission to the planet Mars.
The next planned mission is Shenzhou 10, intended for launch in 2013.