In fact, petroleum products have been replaced by recycled space junk discovered on the last shuttle flight.
In fact, there had been evidence of leakage, what the engineers called "blowby, " on an earlier shuttle flight.
Ms. Ride was slated for a third shuttle flight when the Challenger exploded after taking off in 1986.
There was not going to be a Shuttle flight to fix this problem.
"It lit up the Kennedy Space Center, " said shuttle flight director, Mike Leinbach.
This is the 127th space shuttle flight, the 29th to the station, the 23rd for Endeavour and the third in 2009.
Normally, I would be loath to drive to Los Angeles from San Francisco when I can just jump on a shuttle flight.
One particularly busy Friday evening at San Francisco airport as a passenger service agent, I began working a flight with a passenger line that snaked back 100-plus people for a shuttle flight to San Diego.
With the White House and Congress pressuring NASA to reduce space station costs and construction delays, the agency felt compelled to adhere to a fixed shuttle flight schedule for station missions, which would affect non-station missions as well, the report said.
"Together, we proved that a human in freefall can break the speed of sound returning from near space, going through a transonic phase and landing safely on the ground, " said Dr Jonathan Clark, a former space shuttle flight surgeon and the Red Bull Stratos medical director.
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This is the first shuttle flight for Fincke and Vittori, although they are both very experienced astronauts having flown a number of Soyuz missions to the ISS. Indeed, on his return, Finke's cumulative time spent in orbit will be 381 days - a record for an American.
Mr. COWING: Well, you can average half a billion dollars for every shuttle flight, but there are some costs that are there regardless of whether they fly five flights a year or two, and it's about on the order of three or so billion dollars a year.
Prior to this shuttle delivery flight, there were sleeping quarters for only two Alpha residents.
To meet this goal, we will return the space shuttle to flight as soon as possible, consistent with safety concerns and the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.
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Commander Collins admitted the shuttle, which made its maiden flight in 1981, was showing signs of its age.
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The cosmic ray particle physics detector was carried to the International Space Station on the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour and installed under NASA direction.
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"We would like to land the shuttle tomorrow in Florida, " said flight director Wayne Hale.
After Endeavour's flight there are only 11 shuttle flights before the orbiters are retired.
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The shuttle, by contrast, starts its flight by leaping straight from the gate.
One example that See uses in the classroom: the 1986 Challenger disaster, when the space shuttle blew apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing the seven crew members.
For the Space Shuttle, being a shorter-duration flight of just a couple of weeks, we still train for over one year just specifically on the task that we'll accomplish on our mission.
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In seeking to accommodate Station cost growth within human space flight, we will not compromise Space Shuttle safety.
WHITEHOUSE: Jacob J. Lew Testimony to House Science Committee, 08/06/1998 | The White House
On Wednesday, Nasa flight director John Shannon said photographs of the shuttle taken by the crew had found no apparent damage.
The Obama Administration has canceled plans it inherited to send astronauts back to the Moon, the Space Shuttle is about to retire, and the only near-term human space flight initiative on the books is a handout to rich California businessmen to update old technology.
It was always going to be a test flight - the first of two that have been planned to bring the shuttle programme back on track.
Hernandez will serve as Discovery's flight engineer for launch and landing, and will wield robotic arms on the shuttle and space station.
Shuttle managers expect to have all the imagery in and checked over by day six of the flight.
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Endeavour's three-day piggyback flight was divided into three legs that could be described as scenic routes to showcase the shuttle to the public from coast to coast.
Working at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, his first job at NASA was working on the space shuttle.
The five-segment booster is intended to power the early flight phase of Nasa's proposed Ares 1 launch vehicle - its replacement for the space shuttle.
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