Space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 crew carried it into orbit in May 2011, where it was installed on the station's truss structure.
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It was Garan's own experiences on the STS-124 mission of the shuttle Discovery in 2008 that stirred the emotions in him.
Here this morning with the families of the astronauts and their friends started out as a pretty happy morning, awaiting the landing of STS-107.
They included the one known as STS-107, which, after years of delays, went into space in mid-January for a rare mission devoted solely to science.
This is, indeed, a tragic day for the NASA family, for the families of the astronauts who flew on STS-107 and, likewise, tragic for the nation.
Three years later during STS-27, Atlantis' heat shield sustained severe damage from a piece of insulation that broke off of the right solid rocket booster during launch.
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Dr Patrick's first mission was as the robotic arm operator on STS-116 - a mission of the Discovery shuttle in 2006 to continue the construction of the International Space Station (ISS).
Before joining the astronaut corps in 2004, Marshburn worked as a flight surgeon for NASA. He flew to the space station once before, in 2009, on the STS-127 space shuttle mission.
Immediately upon indication of a loss of communications on STS-107, at a little after 9:00 a.m. this morning, we began our contingency plan to preserve all the information relative to the flight activities.
Many safety improvements had been made for the return to flight, but the STS-114 mission was as much about restoring credibility to the embattled space agency as it was about testing Discovery's new features.
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During the STS-134 mission, and for the first several months afterward, about 40 members of the AMS team monitored the experiment and analyzed the data it sent down from the Payload Operations Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Vincent (with us tailing him) was graciously afforded an almost all-access behind the scenes tour of Kennedy Space Center -- mission control was a no-go, unsurprisingly -- which included a pilgrimage to launchpad 39A, site of the impending STS-135 mission, NASA's last in the Space Transportation System (STS, or Space Shuttle) era.
While Davis took off his shoes and set them in the plastic shoe racks at the base of the giant coiling hamster maze that commanded the front of the restaurant, Lucy sat down beneath a signed poster of the crew of STS-95 an ancient John Glenn among them and dialed the number of Dr. Trimble's office from memory.
To the contrary, studies show that taking STs reduces the likelihood that you will self-medicate with other drugs.
Cadillac's big news is the XTS Platinum concept, a top-of-the-line Caddy that will replace the STS and DTS sedans.
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