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    STS-59 was a Space Shuttle program mission that took place in 1994. The launch was chronicled by the 1994 Discovery Channel special about the Space Shuttle...
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    mission specialist on STS-37, was the payload commander on STS-59 in 1994, flew on STS-76 in 1996, a Mir docking mission, and served on STS-108/International...
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    on STS-53 in 1992, STS-59 in 1994, and STS-76 in 1996. He has logged 665 hours in space, including a 6-hour spacewalk. Flying on the crew of STS-53 which...
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    where the crew conducted the first test of the Endeavour’s drag chute. STS-59, the Space Radar Laboratory (SRL) mission, April 9–20, 1994, was launched...
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    STS-32, STS-46, STS-62, STS-81, STS-98 Mae Jemison – STS-47 Tamara Jernigan – STS-40, STS-52, STS-67, STS-80, STS-96 Brent Jett – STS-72, STS-81, STS-97...
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  • Blaha — STS-29, STS-33, STS-43, STS-58, STS-79/81 Michael J. Bloomfield — STS-86, STS-97, STS-110 Guion Bluford — STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, STS-53 Karol...
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    STS-49 was NASA's maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which launched on May 7, 1992. The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve...
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    Shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996, and STS-98 in 2001. His total mission time was 53 days 48...
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    STS-53 (1992), STS-59 (1994), STS-76 (1996) Michael Coats — STS-41-D (1984), STS-29 (1989), STS-39 (1991) Kenneth Cockrell — STS-56 (1993), STS-69...
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  • STS-82, STS-103, STS-110 Fayetteville: Richard O. Covey — STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-38, STS-61 Little Rock: Scott E. Parazynski — STS-66, STS-86, STS-95...
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    in the mission control center on missions STS-7, STS-8, STS-41B, STS-41C, STS-41D, STS-41G, STS-51A, and STS-51D (the last four as Payload Officer). In...
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    STS-7 was NASA's seventh Space Shuttle mission, and the second mission for the Space Shuttle Challenger. During the mission, Challenger deployed several...
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    in orbit: STS-2 (equipment failure), STS-35 (weather), STS-44 (equipment failure), and STS-83 (equipment failure, relaunched as STS-94). STS-300 was the...
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    Specialist — Spacelab mission STS-59 Endeavour — April 1994 — Mission Specialist — Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) operation STS-79 Atlantis — September...
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    and 330 yd). STs-130 (СЦ-130) - standard STs-130U (СЦ-130У) - for training STs-130PT (СЦ-130ПТ) - increased accuracy (59 gram bullet) STs-130PT2 (СЦ-130ПТ2)...
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    It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May 1992 and its 25th and final mission, STS-134, in May 2011. STS-134 was expected to be the final mission...
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  • space at least twice. Three Catholic astronauts on Space Shuttle mission STS-59 received Holy Communion on 17 April 1994. NASA astronaut Michael S. Hopkins...
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    TM-18". Spacefacts. Retrieved 17 December 2017. "STS-60". Spacefacts. Retrieved 18 December 2017. "STS-59". Spacefacts. Retrieved 18 December 2017. "Soyuz...
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    (1952-2021), U.S. Army (3 flights) STS-53 Discovery (Classified DoD Mission) STS-59 Endeavour (Science Mission) STS-76 Atlantis (Shuttle-Mir Mission) Nancy...
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    488 hours in space. He was the pilot on STS-40 (June 5 – 14, 1991) and was the spacecraft commander on STS-59 (April 9 – 20, 1994). After his first flight...
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    Once from the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April 1994 on (STS-59) and again in October 1994 on (STS-68). The radar was run by NASA's Space Radar Laboratory...
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    1951) – pilot of STS-40; commander of STS-59 James D. Halsell (born 1956) – pilot of STS-65 and STS-74; commander of STS-83, STS-94, and STS-101 L. Blaine...
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    1954), U.S. Air Force (3 flights) STS-49 Endeavour — May 1992 — Pilot — Intelsat VI hand-retrieval and repair STS-59 Endeavour — April 1994 — Pilot — Experiments...
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    STS-68 was a human spaceflight mission using Space Shuttle Endeavour that launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on September 30, 1994. Launch September...
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  • Wall from the Moon. The centimetre-band Spaceborne Imaging Radar of STS-59 and STS-68 was able to detect not only the Great Wall but also invisible buried...
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  • astronaut STS-40 (June 5, 1991) STS-59 (April 9, 1994) 5 Ellen Ochoa May 10, 1958  United States ( Mexico) First female Hispanic astronaut STS-56 (April...
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  • SLF was for mission STS-41B in 1984; landings were suspended at the site following brake damage and a blown tire during the STS-51D landing in 1985,...
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    space and therefore do not qualify as spaceflights. These were the fatal STS-51-L (Challenger disaster), and the non-fatal aborted Soyuz mission T-10a...
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    STS-65 was a Space Shuttle program mission of Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 8 July 1994. The flight carried a crew of 7 and was...
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    STS-66 was a Space Shuttle program mission that was flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-66 launched on November 3, 1994, at 11:59:43.060 am EDT from...
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