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    The Quest Joint Airlock is the primary airlock for the International Space Station. Quest was designed to host spacewalks with both Extravehicular Mobility...
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    An airlock is a room or compartment which permits passage between environments of differing atmospheric pressure or composition, while minimizing the...
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    International Space Station (category Joint ventures)
    specialized for research, habitation, storage, spacecraft control, and airlock functions. Visiting spacecraft dock at the station via its eight docking...
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    Shuttle Atlantis. Its primary objectives were to install the Quest Joint Airlock and help perform maintenance on the International Space Station. It...
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    was to install the Quest Joint Airlock onto the station. The STS-104 crew performed 3 spacewalks. First spacewalk; Joint Airlock Installation The first...
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    flight the crew conducted joint operations with the Expedition 2 crew and performed three spacewalks to install the ISS Joint Airlock Quest and to outfit it...
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    Science Airlock Module is designed as an airlock module of the Lunar Gateway station, to be built by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre. The airlock module...
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    Quest Joint Airlock, was flown and installed to the ISS by Atlantis during the mission STS-104 in July 2001. The successful installation of the airlock gave...
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    International Space Station. The two EMUs are stored within the Quest Joint Airlock. As of 2019[update], NASA plans to use Exploration Extravehicular Mobility...
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    were conducted during the assembly of the ISS, often using the Quest Joint Airlock, designed to support both US EMUs, and Russian Orlan space suits. China...
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    originally installed with an internal airlock in the mid-deck. The internal airlock was installed as an external airlock in the payload bay on Discovery, Atlantis...
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  • Quaternion estimator algorithm, a solution to Wahba's problem Quest Joint Airlock, part of the International Space Station QUEST Q-shu University Experiment...
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    the crew conducted joint operations with the Expedition 2 crew and performed three spacewalks to install the Quest Joint Airlock and to outfit it with...
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    23, 2022, Chari and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer exited the Quest Joint Airlock on the ISS to perform an EVA. However, Maurer's helmet camera became...
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    International Space Station. The shuttle crew installed the joint airlock "Quest" and conducted joint operations with the Expedition 2 crew. Kavandi had trained...
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    Notable accomplishments included replacing critical hardware in the Quest Joint Airlock; repairing U.S. spacesuits; and submitting a scientific research paper...
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    station added on STS-92), the PMA-3 (also added on STS-92), and the Quest Joint Airlock (added on STS-104). During STS-120 the Harmony module was temporarily...
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    spacewalks were performed from a shuttle, ninety-three from the Quest Joint Airlock, thirty-two from the Pirs docking compartment, and two from the transfer...
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    months rotations), Progress transporters (2 or more), the Quest and Pirs airlocks, as well as periodically the H-II Transfer Vehicle). The US Orbital Segment...
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    Atlantis 5 12d 18h LC-39B Kennedy SLF ISS assembly flight 7A: Quest Joint Airlock 106 10 August 2001 21:10:14 UTC 17:10:14 EDT STS-105 Discovery 7/7 11d...
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    Unity Module. However, unlike ESP-1, ESP-2 is attached to the Quest Joint Airlock using a specialized ESP Attachment Device (ESPAD). ESP-2 and ESP-3 are...
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  • Michael L. Gernhardt Janet L. Kavandi James F. Reilly Deliver Quest Joint Airlock 3 spacewalks 13. 7A.1 STS-105 Discovery Launch: August 10, 2001 Time...
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  • Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the International Space Station. 2006 – The 2006 Lebanon War begins...
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    the third and final space walk. The pair spent the night in the Quest Joint Airlock, at a lower pressure of 10.2 psi instead of 14.7 psi. During flight...
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    scheduled, to install an external stowage platform on the ISS Quest Joint Airlock and to replace a gyroscope that had failed. Collins was concerned about...
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    various materials. It was installed in two separate airlock handrails located on the Quest Joint Airlock and high-pressure gas tanks. On 30 July 2005, during...
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    responsible for control of all elements of the Kibo laboratory. The Quest Joint Airlock is used to host spacewalks from the USOS segment of the ISS. It consists...
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    Radiator panels External Stowage Platform 1 Destiny lab Quest airlock (plan view) Quest airlock (isometric view) Node 1 Node 2 Cupola Columbus Pirs Poisk...
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    conducted joint operations with the Expedition-2 crew. Gernhardt was one of two astronauts to perform three spacewalks to install the joint airlock "Quest"...
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    flights) STS-104 Atlantis (ISS assembly mission – launched the Quest Joint Airlock) STS-118 Endeavour (ISS assembly mission – launched the S5 Truss Segment)...
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