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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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    Sally Ride (section STS-7)
    In June 1983, she flew in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission. The mission deployed two communications satellites and the first...
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    internally designated STS-11, became STS-41-B as part of the new numbering system. EVA 1 Personnel: McCandless and Stewart Date: February 7, 1984 Duration:...
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    as pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as commander of STS-7 in June 1983, STS-41-C in April 1984, and STS-41-G in October...
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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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  • STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, STS-53 Karol Bobko (1937–2023) — STS-6, STS-51-D, STS-51-J Eric A. Boe — STS-126, STS-133 Charles Bolden — STS-61-C, STS-31...
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    STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September...
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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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  • Her Missions and Crews. Praxis Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 0-387-21517-4. "STS-7 Flight Feasibility Assessment" (PDF). NASA Flight Planning Branch. 1979...
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    Archived from the original on May 23, 2019. Retrieved November 7, 2012. "30 Years Since STS-6: The Rise of the Challenger (Part 1)". April 6, 2013. Ware...
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    pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26. He was born April 11, 1941, in Long Beach, California...
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    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, STS-115...
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    STS-6 was the sixth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 4, 1983...
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    STS-7 (1983), STS-41-G (1984) Stephen Robinson — STS-85 (1997), STS-95 (1998), STS-114 (2005), STS-130 (2010) Kent Rominger — STS-73 (1995), STS-80...
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    TM-7". Spacefacts. Retrieved 17 December 2017. "STS-27". Spacefacts. Retrieved 18 December 2017. "STS-29". Spacefacts. Retrieved 18 December 2017. "STS-30"...
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    The Cadillac STS (an initialism of Seville Touring Sedan) is a mid-sized luxury 4-door sedan manufactured and marketed by General Motors from 2004 to...
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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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    after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986. The mission, designated STS-107, was the twenty-eighth flight for the orbiter, the 113th flight of the...
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    space. He was a mission specialist on STS-7 in 1983, STS-51-B in 1985, STS-30 in 1989, was the payload commander on STS-42 in 1992, and was the cosmonaut/researcher...
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    mission contained the designator STS-33 throughout. As STS-51-L was designated STS-33, future flights with the STS-26 through STS-33 designators would require...
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    STS-51 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that launched the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) in September 1993. Discovery's...
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    STS-135 (ISS assembly flight ULF7) was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally...
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    the size and shape of the coracoid process in Australopithecus africanus (STS 7) have shown that, in this species, it displayed a prominent dorsolateral...
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    STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April...
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    The shortlisted candidates for the mission specialist assignments for the STS-7 mission included all six women, but since the mission involved the use of...
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    STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the 28th and final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission ended on February 1, 2003...
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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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    unchanged. The last SWT, flown on STS-7, weighed approximately 77,000 pounds (35,000 kg) inert. Beginning with the STS-6 mission, a lightweight ET (LWT)...
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    space adaptation syndrome, with relevant investigations on STS-4, STS-5, STS-6, STS-7, and STS-8. Thornton holds more than 60 patents that range from military...
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    Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from the 1969 plan led by U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew for a system...
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