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They will get together at 20:18 JST, 7:18 EDT.....
STS 114 : Space Shuttle Discovery
IIS (ZARYA) : International Space Station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis' main engines and solid rocket boosters ignite on Launch Pad 39A leaving behind a billow of steam and smoke as it lifts off past the tower on its STS-135 mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis with its crew of four; Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, lifted off at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8, 2011 to deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the International Space Station. Atlantis also will fly the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit. In addition, Atlantis will return with a failed ammonia pump module to help NASA better understand the failure mechanism and improve pump designs for future systems. STS-135 will be the 33rd flight of Atlantis, the 37th shuttle mission to the space station, and the 135th and final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Program. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135.... Photo credit: NASA/Sandra Joseph and Kevin O'Connell
Space Shuttle Endeavour in the Samuel Oschin Pavillion at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 61B (STS-31) through 61E (STS-34). Notice that canceled Mission 61D was never given an STS number (Spacelab 4, also known as Space Laboratory Science-1, which would reappear in 1987.) August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.
Foto e ilustración transbordador "Columbia". Space Shuttle Columbia pic and illustration.
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November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 61F (STS-35) through 61N (STS-40), including Mission 62A (STS-1V) - the first flight from Vandenberg, although that was in danger of slipping to July. The use of the letter N means 14 flights planned for KSC for fiscal 1986 - plus another one for FY 1986 from VAFB. August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.
A memorial to the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia who died during STS-107, , the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program.
Commander - Rick D. Husband
Pilot - William C. McCool
Mission Specialist - David M. Brown
Mission Specialist - Kalpana Chawla
Mission Specialist - Laurel B. Clark
Payload Commander - Michael P. Anderson
Payload Specialist - Ilan Ramon
The Pathfinder Shuttle Stack at the U.S Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL, is the only full shuttle stack in the world.
Pathfinder served as a non-flight test vehicle and is currently undergoing restoration.
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development.
The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), conducted science experiments in orbit, participated in the Shuttle-Mir program with Russia, and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station (ISS).