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=== ''Jules Verne'' ===
{{Main|Jules Verne ATV}}
[[File:Jules verne at iss.jpg|thumb|Jules Verne ATV at ISS, 2008]]
The first flight of the ATV was delayed on multiple occasions prior to its launch on 9 March 2008. It was named ''[[Jules Verne]]'', in memory of the first science fiction writer of modern times. The ''Jules Verne'' carried two of the author's original handwritten manuscripts, to be received by the ISS crew as symbolic tokens of the success of the maiden flight.<ref>{{cite web |title=Europe's 'Jules Verne' spacecraft carries namesake's notes on maiden voyage |url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-030708a.html |publisher=collectSPACE.com |date=7 March 2008 |access-date=7 March 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080310203557/http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-030708a.html| archive-date= 10 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>

The craft was launched into a {{convert|300|km|adj=on}} [[orbit]] atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the equatorial [[ELA-3]] launch site at the [[Guiana Space Centre]]. The ATV separated from the rocket, and following weeks of tests and orbit adjustments, successfully docked in the International Space Station at 14:45 UTC on 3 April 2008.{{Cn|date=July 2021}}

In the early morning hours of 29 September 2008, the Jules Verne burnt up on entering the atmosphere above an uninhabited section of the Pacific Ocean, southwest of Tahiti.{{Cn|date=July 2021}}