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AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate welcomes new director
Deputy Administrator Linda Fisher at e-Gov Presentation [412-APD-A115-DSC_0040.JPG]
Raymond Cywinski, from the Rotary Club of Paramus,
[Assignment: 48-DPA-09-04-07_SOI_K_Will_Rec] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Williamsburg, Virginia, for [Colonial National Historical Park touring, discussions with National Park Service Director Mary Bomar and Colonial National Historical Park staff, and keynote address at the 2007 National Association of State Park Directors and National Park Service Leadership Council Conference] [48-DPA-09-04-07_SOI_K_Will_Rec_DOI_1416.JPG]
[Assignment: 48-DPA-09-04-07_SOI_K_Will_Rec] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Williamsburg, Virginia, for [Colonial National Historical Park touring, discussions with National Park Service Director Mary Bomar and Colonial National Historical Park staff, and keynote address at the 2007 National Association of State Park Directors and National Park Service Leadership Council Conference] [48-DPA-09-04-07_SOI_K_Will_Rec_DOI_1415.JPG]
Fort McCoy workforce members participate in Homeland
Press conference [on the Federal Housing Administration role in the housing and economic recovery, with Secretary Shaun Donovan and Federal Housing Administration Commissioner David Stevens]
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the Launch Control Center, Associate Administrator for Space Operations Mission William Gerstenmaier congratulates the launch team after the liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-115. Behind him, at right, are Pat Leslie and Robbie Ashley, STS-115 payload manager. Mission STS-115 is the 116th space shuttle flight, the 27th flight for orbiter Atlantis, and the 19th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. Mission STS-115 is scheduled to last 11 days with a planned landing at KSC. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd2140
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the Launch Control Center, Associate Administrator for Space Operations Mission William Gerstenmaier congratulates the launch team after the liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-115. Behind him, at right, are Pat Leslie and Robbie Ashley, STS-115 payload manager. Mission STS-115 is the 116th space shuttle flight, the 27th flight for orbiter Atlantis, and the 19th U.S. flight to the International Space Station. Mission STS-115 is scheduled to last 11 days with a planned landing at KSC. 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.
Space Shuttle Atlantis was a space shuttle that was operated by NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program. It was the fourth operational shuttle built, and the last one to be built before the program was retired in 2011. Atlantis was named after the first research vessel operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and it made its first flight in October 1985. Over the course of its career, Atlantis completed 33 missions and spent a total of 307 days in space. Its last mission was STS-135, which was the final mission of the Space Shuttle program. Atlantis is now on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) was one of the four first operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States. (The other two are Discovery and Endeavour.) Atlantis was the fourth operational shuttle built. Atlantis is named after a two-masted sailing ship that operated from 1930 to 1966 for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Atlantis performed well in 25 years of service, flying 33 missions.
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