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With Commander Kevin Kregel and Pilot Steven Lindsey at the controls, the orbiter Columbia touches its main gear down on Runway 33 at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 7:20:04 a.m. EST Dec. 5 to complete the 15-day, 16-hour and 34-minute-long STS-87 mission of 6.5 million miles. Also onboard the orbiter are Mission Specialists Winston Scott; Kalpana Chawla, Ph.D.; and Takao Doi, Ph.D., of the National Space Development Agency of Japan; along with Payload Specialist Leonid Kadenyuk of the National Space Agency of Ukraine. During the 88th Space Shuttle mission, the crew performed experiments on the United States Microgravity Payload-4 and pollinated plants as part of the Collaborative Ukrainian Experiment. This was the 12th landing for Columbia at KSC and the 41st KSC landing in the history of the Space Shuttle program KSC-97PC1738
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis is towed out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis was removed from its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters stack after the delay of its STS-125 mission to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It is returning to the Orbiter Processing Facility. Atlantis' targeted launch on Oct. 14 was delayed when a system that transfers science data from the orbiting observatory to Earth malfunctioned on Sept. 27. The new target launch date is under review. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis KSC-08pd3649
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The wheels of Space Shuttle Endeavour make contact with runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility, bringing to a close the 13-day, 18-hour, 48-minute, 5.74-million mile STS-113 mission to the International Space Station. Main gear touchdown was at 2:37:12 p.m. EST, nose gear touchdown was at 2:37:23 p.m., and wheel stop was at 2:38:25 p.m. Poor weather conditions thwarted landing opportunities until a fourth day, the first time in Shuttle program history that a landing has been waved off for three consecutive days. The vehicle carries the STS-113 crew, Commander James Wetherbee, Pilot Paul Lockhart and Mission Specialists Michael Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington, as well as the returning Expedition Five crew, Commander Valeri Korzun, ISS Science Officer Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Sergei Treschev. The installation of the P1 truss on the International Space Station was accomplished during the mission. KSC-02pp1903
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle [Discovery flying over Washington. D.C., on final journey to its permanent museum home]
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle [Discovery flying over Washington. D.C., on final journey to its permanent museum home]
Space Shuttle Discovery DC Fly-Over (201204170008HQ)
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Cranes remove a full-size, 149-foot-long, space shuttle solid rocket booster, or SRB, replica from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex as the space-themed attraction makes way for a new exhibit featuring space shuttle Atlantis, which is currently undergoing preparations to go on public display. The SRB is being placed into temporary storage at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The SRB was part of a mockup of the external tank and two SRBs at the visitor complex that were used to show visitors the size of actual space shuttle components. A space shuttle rode piggyback on the tank and boosters at liftoff and during the ascent into space. The SRBs burned out after about two-and-a-half minutes of flight. After recovery from the ocean, the boosters could be used repeatedly. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossman KSC-2011-8124
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Космический корабль "Шаттл", на борту которого находится орбитальный зонд, выкатывается за пределы орбитального испытательного комплекса (ОПФ) № 3 и направляется к зданию VAB. Эта фотография сделана с крыши VAB. Ролловер орбитального аппарата является одним из предстартовых милей. Он готовился к следующей миссии - STS-86, запуск которой был запланирован на сентябрь. STS-86 стал седьмым из девяти запланированных стыковок космического корабля с российской космической станцией. .. Изображение #: 97PC-1225 .August 11, 1997
Коллекция фотографий НАСА
Программа "Спейс шаттл" представляла собой программу пилотируемых ракет-носителей правительства США с 1981 по 2011 год, управляемую НАСА и официально начавшуюся в 1972 году. Система "Спейс шаттл", состоящая из орбитального корабля, запускаемого с двумя многоразовыми твердотопливными ракетами-носителями и одноразовым внешним топливным баком, - доставил до восьми астронавтов и до 50 000 фунтов (23 000 кг) полезной нагрузки на низкую околоземную орбиту (НОО). Когда его миссия будет завершена, орбитальный аппарат снова войдет в атмосферу Земли и приземлится как планер. Хотя концепция была исследована с конца 1960-х годов, программа официально началась в 1972 году и была в центре внимания пилотируемых операций НАСА после последних полетов Apollo и Skylab в середине 1970-х годов. Все началось с запуска первого шаттла Columbia 12 апреля 1981 года на STS-1. и завершил свой последний полет, STS-135, которым управляла Атлантида, в июле 2011 года.
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