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    disaster, following the two successful Return to Flight missions, STS-114 and STS-121. STS-115 launched from LC-39B at the Kennedy Space Center on September...
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    years later he was the commander on STS-97. Finally, he served as the commander of Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-115. A veteran of four space missions,...
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    mission to space, STS-115, which launched on September 9, 2006, and returned to Earth on September 21, 2006. He then commanded STS-126 aboard Space Shuttle...
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    gap fillers prior to re-entry. During STS-115, Atlantis' belly was photographed by the ISS Expedition 13. During STS-116, Discovery, commanded by Mark L...
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    was STS-115, conducted during September 2006. The mission carried the P3/P4 truss segments and solar arrays to the ISS. On ISS assembly flight STS-122...
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    for STS-114 and STS-121, in the event that the shuttle became disabled or damaged and could not safely return to Earth. The rescue flight for STS-115, if...
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    commencing with STS-118. One half of the original P6 solar array installed by STS-97 was folded to make room for the new P4 array deployed by STS-115 to rotate...
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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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    Navy Achievement Medals. She has flown on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-115 and STS-126, during which she completed five spacewalks totaling 33 hours and...
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    Upgrade design team. Twice flown, he served as a mission specialist on STS-106 and STS-115 logging over 23 days in space, and 7 hours and 11 minutes of EVA...
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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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    and covered 4.47 million miles (7,190,000 km). Tanner's fourth mission, STS-115 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on September 9, 2006. On September...
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    STS-40 (1991), STS-52 (1992), STS-67 (1995), STS-80 (1996), STS-96 (1999) Brent W. Jett, Jr. — STS-72 (1996), STS-81 (1997), STS-97 (2000), STS-115 (2006)...
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    The P3/P4 truss assembly was installed by the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-115 mission, launched September 9, 2006, and attached to the P1 segment. The...
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    before the disaster and the designation of STS-121 once again became available. Since STS-115 through STS-120 were already delegated to existing missions...
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    until STS-115 on 9 September 2006. The S1 truss segment, which provides structural support for the Space Station radiators was the main payload of STS-112...
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  • Go For Launch (STS-123) STS-122 Go/No Go Poll (STS-122) STS-115 Atlantis long countdown to launch (launch status check at 3:03) (STS-115) (video private...
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    shuttle missions (STS-121, STS-115, and STS-116) were later conducted, all with "acceptable" levels of foam loss. However, on STS-118 a piece of foam...
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    flights) Pilot, STS-117 (Atlantis) Commander, STS-119 (Discovery) Christopher Ferguson (3 flights) Pilot, STS-115 (Atlantis) Commander, STS-126 (Endeavour)...
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  • Space Shuttle missions designated STS-3xx (officially called Launch On Need (LON) missions) were rescue missions which would have been mounted to rescue...
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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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  • Archived from the original on 8 November 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013. "STS-115". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 8 November 2013...
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  • NASA. Archived from the original on 2010-08-13. Retrieved 2008-11-19. "STS-115 Mission Information". NASA. Archived from the original on 2008-03-05. Retrieved...
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    on STS-99 Steven MacLean – mission specialist on STS-115 Hans Schlegel – mission specialist on STS-122 Umberto Guidoni – mission specialist on STS-100...
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    TMA-8". Spacefacts. Retrieved 17 December 2017. "STS-121". Spacefacts. Retrieved 18 December 2017. "STS-115". Spacefacts. Retrieved 18 December 2017. "Soyuz...
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    Atlantis STS-97 Endeavour STS-115 Atlantis Kevin R. Kregel (born 1956), U.S. Air Force (4 flights) STS-70 Discovery STS-78 Columbia STS-87 Columbia STS-99 Endeavour...
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    STS-117 (ISS assembly flight 13A) was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis, launched from pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center on June...
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    of the Space Vision System. MacLean served as a mission specialist on STS-115, which launched on September 9, 2006, and returned on September 21, 2006...
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  • "STS-113 mission summary". Retrieved 2008-11-19. "STS-129 mission summary". Retrieved 2009-11-23. "Vita mission live". Retrieved 2017-08-08. "STS-115 Mission...
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