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U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Andrea Inmon, 92nd

S79E5191 - STS-079 - Korzun on forward flight deck

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-125 Mission Specialist Mike Massimino discusses his role in the mission for the media. The crew is at Kennedy to take part in terminal countdown demonstration test, or TCDT, activities before launching on space shuttle Atlantis’ mission to service NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. TCDT provides astronauts and ground crews with an opportunity to participate in various simulated countdown activities, including equipment familiarization, emergency training and a simulated launch countdown. Atlantis is targeted to launch Oct. 10. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-08pd2848

Expedition 64 Cosmonaut Hotel Leisure Activities (NHQ202010060009)

PACIFIC OCEAN – Cryptologic Technician (Technical)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - STS-125 Commander Scott Altman takes his seat in the shuttle training aircraft for practice shuttle landings on the runway of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STA is a Grumman American Aviation-built Gulf Stream II jet that was modified to simulate a shuttle’s cockpit, motion and visual cues, and handling qualities. In flight, the aircraft duplicates the shuttle’s atmospheric descent trajectory from approximately 35,000 feet altitude to landing on a runway. The practice is part of a terminal countdown demonstration test, or TCDT, to prepare for launch. TCDT provides astronauts and ground crews with an opportunity to participate in various simulated countdown activities, including equipment familiarization, emergency training and a simulated launch countdown. Space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-125 mission to service NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is targeted to launch Oct. 10. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-08pd2836

Test pilot Michael R. Swann. NASA public domain image colelction.

41G-101-049 - STS-41G - 41G crew activities

STS109-713-058 - STS-109 - RMS lifts HST out of the payload bay after repairs

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-121 Mission Specialist Piers Sellers is suiting up for a second launch attempt on Space Shuttle Discovery. The first launch attempt July 1 was scrubbed due to weather concerns and postponed 24 hours. The launch is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1368

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-121 Mission Specialist Piers Sellers finishes suiting up for a second launch attempt on Space Shuttle Discovery. The first launch attempt July 1 was scrubbed due to weather concerns and postponed 24 hours. The launch is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1369

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-121 Mission Specialists Lisa Nowak and Piers Sellers inspect cables in the mid-body of Space Shuttle Discovery on Launch Pad 39B. The crew is making final preparations for the launch on July 1 to the International Space Station. On the 12-day mission, the crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the station. This mission is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflet KSC-06pd1266

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-121 Mission Specialist Michael Fossum arrives at KSC aboard a T-38 jet aircraft to get ready for launch on July 1. The launch will be his first space flight. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. This mission is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1241

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-121 Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson and Pilot Mark Kelly walk across the Shuttle Landing Facility after their arrival to get ready for launch on July 1. The launch will be Wilson's first space flight. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. This mission is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1244

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Mission Specialist Piers Sellers adjusts his glove while donning his launch suit before heading to Launch Pad 39B and liftoff on mission STS-121. The launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121 is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1392A

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-121 Mission Specialist Piers Sellers is eager for launch as he suits up before heading to Launch Pad 39B and liftoff. The launch is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1321A

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After their arrival at KSC to prepare for launch on July 1, the STS-121 crew greets the media on the Shuttle Landing Facility. From left are Mission Specialists Lisa Nowak and Michael Fossum, Pilot Mark Kelly, Commander Steven Lindsey, and Mission Specialists Stephanie Wilson, Piers Sellers and Thomas Reiter. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. This mission is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1247

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-121 Mission Specialists Lisa Nowak (left, above) and Piers Sellers (right, below) inspect cables in the mid-body of Space Shuttle Discovery on Launch Pad 39B. On the 12-day mission, the crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the station. This mission is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflet KSC-06pd1267

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-121 Mission Specialist Piers Sellers arrives aboard a T-38 jet aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility to get ready for launch on July 1. The launch will be Sellers' second space flight. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. This mission is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1245

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - STS-121 Mission Specialist Piers Sellers arrives aboard a T-38 jet aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility to get ready for launch on July 1. The launch will be Sellers' second space flight. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. This mission is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - For the second time in two days, STS-121 Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson is suiting up for a launch attempt on Space Shuttle Discovery. The first launch attempt July 1 was scrubbed due to weather concerns and postponed 24 hours. The launch is the 115th shuttle flight and the 18th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. During the 12-day mission, the STS-121 crew will test new equipment and procedures to improve shuttle safety, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1364

U.S. Marine Cpl Julianne Patton, Marine Heavy Helicopter

Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-45 Launch

STS 121 PRESENTATION BY ASTRONAUT PIERS SELLERS

STAFF Sergeant John Chasse, 92d Aircraft Generation Squadron speaks to the aircraft commander during pre-flight checks for the first 92d Air Refueling Wing launch at March Air Reserve Base, California. The 92d Air Refueling Wing has relocated operations due to runway repairs at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington

US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) Zach Vauter, a EA-6B Prowler aircraft crew member inspects his aircraft prior to taking off at Elmendorf Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK), in support of Northern Edge Exercise 2004. Northern Edge 2004 is designed to simulate joint operations, techniques, procedures, command and control relationships and enhance interoperability among the services

STS109-315-016 - STS-109 - HST in Columbia's payload bay after repairs

STS109-713-059 - STS-109 - RMS lifts HST out of the payload bay after repairs

STS109-713-069 - STS-109 - RMS lifts HST out of the payload bay after repairs

Crewmen test oxygen breathing apparatus during Damage Control Olympics at the Bravo Piers

A technician conducts a flight system inspection on a 509th Bombardment Wing F-111 aircraft. Aircraft inspections and repairs are made quickly and more efficiently due to the implementation of the Strategic Air Command's Readiness Oriented Logistics Syste

After leaving the Operations and Checkout Building, the STS-88 crew approach the Astrovan for their trip to Launch Pad 39A. In the back row are (left to right) Mission Specialist Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, a Russian cosmonaut, and Mission Specialists Jerry L. Ross and James H. Newman. In the front row (left to right) are Pilot Frederick W. "Rick" Sturckow, Mission Specialist Nancy J. Currie and Commander Robert D. Cabana. STS-88 is expected to launch at 3:56 a.m. EST with the six-member crew aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on Dec. 3. Endeavour carries the Unity connecting module, which the crew will be mating with the Russian-built Zarya control module already in orbit. In addition to Unity, two small replacement electronics boxes are on board for possible repairs to Zarya batteries. The mission is expected to last 11 days, 19 hours and 49 minutes, with landing at 10:17 p.m. EST on Dec. 14 KSC-98pc1764

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