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Expedition 18 crew member Koichi Wakata & Mike Fincke

STS051-08-010 - STS-051 - Crewmembers in the middeck

Expedition 38 Prelaunch. NASA public domain image colelction.

STS062-12-020 - STS-062 - MS Thuot assists Pilot Allen in donning his launch/entry suit

STS093-309-025 - STS-093 - STS-93 Commander Collins and Pilot Ashby working on the middeck of Columbia

In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 47-48 crewmember Jeff Williams of NASA strikes a thoughtful look in his Russian Sokol launch and entry suit March 4 during leak checks of the suit as part of pre-launch training. Williams and Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos will launch March 19, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Courtesy of Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center jsc2016e026338

S125E007646 - STS-125 - STS-125 MS4 Massimino and MS1 Good during EVA2

STS068-54-008 - STS-068 - STS-68 crew activities on flight deck

S113E05296 - STS-113 - Herrington during EVA Prep for STS-113

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After exiting the Crew Transport Vehicle, the STS-102 crew gathers under Discovery for a walk-around. From left are Pilot James Kelly, Mission Specialist Andy Thomas, Commander James Wetherbee and Mission Specialist Paul Richards. The crew landed at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility at 2:31 a.m. EST aboard Discovery following a 12-day, 19-hour, 49-minute mission to the International Space Station KSC01pp0552

The International Space Station's Expedition One crew members wave at the camera and onlookers as they prepare to depart KSC from the Shuttle Landing Facility for their return to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. From left to right are Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, William M. Shepherd and Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev. The crew returned to Earth aboard Discovery March 21, concluding mission STS-102 KSC01pp0561

The three members of the Expedition Two crew arrive at KSC. Standing, left to right, are astronaut Susan Helms, cosmonaut Yury Usachev, and astronaut James Voss. They will be flying on mission STS-102 to the International Space Station, replacing the Expedition One crew, who will return to earth on Discovery. STS-102 will be Helms’ and Voss’s fifth Shuttle flight, and Usachev’s second KSC01pp0212

Inside Discovery, STS-102 crew members settle in their seats, getting ready for a simulated countdown. From left are Mission Specialists Yury Usachev, Susan Helms and James Voss, who are the Expedition Two crew going to the International Space Station for their four-month rotation. Expedition One will return to Earth with Discovery. STS-102 is the eighth construction flight to the Space Station, with Space Shuttle Discovery carrying the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo. Launch on mission STS-102 is scheduled for March 8 KSC-01padig091

The International Space Station’s Expedition One crew members prepare to depart KSC from the Shuttle Landing Facility for their return to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. From left to right are Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, William M. Shepherd and Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev. The crew returned to Earth aboard Discovery March 21, concluding mission STS-102 KSC01pp0559

Orbiter Discovery, with its seven-member crew, approaches the landing strip at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., after an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The orbiter’s main landing gear touched down on EAFB runway 22 at 5 p.m. With the aid of its drag chute, Discovery came to a complete stop at 5:01 p.m. At the conclusion of mission STS-92, Discovery and crew had traveled about 5.3 million statute miles. Following vehicle safing and preliminary offloading efforts, workers will begin preparations for Discovery’s transcontinental ferry flight back to KSC on the back of NASA’s modified Boeing 747 KSC00pp1671

Viewed from the side, orbiter Discovery, with its seven-member crew, is about to touch down on the landing strip at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., after an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The orbiter’s main landing gear touched down on EAFB runway 22 at 5 p.m. With the aid of its drag chute, Discovery came to a complete stop at 5:01 p.m. At the conclusion of mission STS-92, Discovery and crew had traveled about 5.3 million statute miles. Following vehicle safing and preliminary offloading efforts, workers will begin preparations for Discovery’s transcontinental ferry flight back to KSC on the back of NASA’s modified Boeing 747 KSC-00pp1673

Orbiter Discovery, with its seven-member crew, touches down on the landing strip at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., after an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The orbiter’s main landing gear touched down on EAFB runway 22 at 5 p.m. With the aid of its drag chute, Discovery came to a complete stop at 5:01 p.m. At the conclusion of mission STS-92, Discovery and crew had traveled about 5.3 million statute miles. Following vehicle safing and preliminary offloading efforts, workers will begin preparations for Discovery’s transcontinental ferry flight back to KSC on the back of NASA’s modified Boeing 747 KSC-00pp1670

Viewed from the side, orbiter Discovery, with its seven-member crew, touches down on the landing strip at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., after an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The orbiter’s main landing gear touched down on EAFB runway 22 at 5 p.m. With the aid of its drag chute, Discovery came to a complete stop at 5:01 p.m. At the conclusion of mission STS-92, Discovery and crew had traveled about 5.3 million statute miles. Following vehicle safing and preliminary offloading efforts, workers will begin preparations for Discovery’s transcontinental ferry flight back to KSC on the back of NASA’s modified Boeing 747 KSC-00pp1672

After exiting the Crew Transport Vehicle, the STS-102 crew gathers under Discovery for a walk-around. From left are Pilot James Kelly, Commander James Wetherbee and Mission Specialists Paul Richards and Andrew Thomas. . The crew landed at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility at 2:31 a.m. EST aboard Discovery following a 12-day, 19-hour, 49-minute mission to the International Space Station KSC01pp0551

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After exiting the Crew Transport Vehicle, the STS-102 crew gathers under Discovery for a walk-around. From left are Pilot James Kelly, Commander James Wetherbee and Mission Specialists Paul Richards and Andrew Thomas. . The crew landed at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility at 2:31 a.m. EST aboard Discovery following a 12-day, 19-hour, 49-minute mission to the International Space Station

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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label_outline Explore Mission Specialists Paul Richards, Walk Around, Crew Transport Vehicle

Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall is suited up prior to her U-2 Dragonlady flight. STAFF SGT. Andrew McLean, an aerospace physiologist specialist, integrates the full pressure suit

STS102-346-018 - STS-102 - Close views of Paul Richards during an EVA

S41-01-008 - STS-041 - SSCE - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

STS102-315-022 - STS-102 - Richards takes his own photo

STS063-312-018 - STS-063 - Cdr. Wetherbee on flight deck during Mir rendezvous

STS113-353-033 - STS-113 - Wetherbee, in his LES, reviews checklist on Endeavour's FFD during STS-113

S102E5165 - STS-102 - Richards during EVA in the orbiter payload bay

S102E5027 - STS-102 - MS Richards during hardware checkout on the flight deck

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery touches down in darkness on Runway 15 of the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility, bringing to a close the 10-day STS-82 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Main gear touchdown was at 3:32:26 a.m. EST on February 21, 1997. It was the ninth nighttime landing in the history of the Shuttle program and the 35th landing at KSC. The first landing opportunity at KSC was waved off because of low clouds in the area. The seven-member crew performed a record-tying five back-to-back extravehicular activities (EVAs) or spacewalks to service the telescope, which has been in orbit for nearly seven years. Two new scientific instruments were installed, replacing two outdated instruments. Five spacewalks also were performed on the first servicing mission, STS-61, in December 1993. Only four spacewalks were scheduled for STS-82, but a fifth one was added during the flight to install several thermal blankets over some aging insulation covering three HST compartments containing key data processing, electronics and scientific instrument telemetry packages. Crew members are Mission Commander Kenneth D. Bowersox, Pilot Scott J. "Doc" Horowitz, Payload Commander Mark C. Lee, and Mission Specialists Steven L. Smith, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Joseph R. "Joe" Tanner and Steven A. Hawley. STS-82 was the 82nd Space Shuttle flight and the second mission of 1997 KSC-97pc352

STS064-44-020 - STS-064 - STS-64 crew members working on the flight deck

Interior Communications Electrician 2nd Class Lori Richards stands as the fantail phone talker aboard the salvage ship USS GRAPPLE (ARS-53). The GRAPPLE is towing three ocean minesweepers to the Persian Gulf to support U.S. Navy escort operations

STS102-361-033 - STS-102 - Flight deck activity during ISS flyaround

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