Headed for the International Space Station, the agency’s youngest shuttle made its final flight delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) and critical supplies, including two communications antennas, a high-pressure gas […]
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Space Shuttle Atlantis completed STS-135, its 33rd and final mission landing on Runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility on the morning of Thursday, July 21, 2011. It […]
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STS-122 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-122 marked the 24th shuttle mission to the ISS, and the 121st […]
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On STS-104, the joint airlock module on the International Space Station was attached to the Unity Node and high-pressure gas tanks attached to the airlock, christened “Quest.”
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STS-120 was the 23rd shuttle mission to the International Space Station, and launched an Italian-built U.S. multi-port module for the station.
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On Oct 18, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch performed the first all-woman spacewalk. Koch & Meir replaced a faulty battery charge/discharge unit that failed to activate after a […]
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STS-100 installed the advanced robotic arm, called Canadarm2, outside of Destiny. The exchange of the cradle from station arm to shuttle arm marked the first ever robotic-to-robotic transfer in space.
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STS-124 shuttle mission was the 26th shuttle mission to the International Space Station and delivered the Pressurized Module and robotic arm of the Japanese Experiment Module, known as “Kibo” (hope). […]
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After docking to the International Space Station on day 2, station and shuttle crews opened hatches and unloaded supplies: three 12-gallon bags of water, a spare computer, cables to be […]
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STS-106’s mission to the 143-foot-long station focused on unloading nearly three tons of cargo from the orbiter and a Progress supply craft already docked to the opposite end of the […]
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STS-113 dropped off the Expedition Six crew members at the orbital outpost, and brought back the Expedition Five crew at mission’s end. During the 14-day mission, the combined Endeavour and […]
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In December 2001, the space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station during the STS-108 mission. The primary goals for the four-member shuttle crew of astronauts Dominic L. Gorie, […]
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