Space Shuttle missions designated STS-3xx (officially called Launch On Need (LON) missions) were rescue missions which would have been mounted to rescue...

aboard the ISS and wait for a rescue.: 81  The rescue mission, designated STS-3xx, would be activated, and would use the next-in-line hardware for the orbiter...

V Center AS 209 on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex STS-3xx Soyuz 32, Soyuz 33, and Soyuz 34. The crew of Soyuz 32 boarded the Soviet...

Investigation Board report showed that the Space Transportation System (STS) was risky/unsafe, and due to the expense to make Shuttle safe, in 2004,...

orbiter was damaged beyond the normal repair methods, NASA implemented a STS-3xx contingency mission program that could launch a rescue orbiter on short...

before the mission was scrubbed. STS-3xx STS-127 Hubble Space Telescope NASA Mission Operations Directorate (2 June 2008). "STS-400 Flight Plan" (PDF). NASA...

landing on STS-41-B (the first mission to use the SLF runway), and runway approach footage filmed from a fixed-wing aircraft. Mission STS-41-C, the 11th...

Shuttle Columbia disaster, after which NASA took steps to prepare the STS-3xx or Launch on Need missions to provide for rescue in certain scenarios....

for ferry flight to KSC Columbia January 30, 1984 (DFRC to Palmdale) for STS-17 modifications Enterprise April 2, 1984 (Brookley Air Force Base, Mobile...

7 metres, higher than 2 metres 2 22, 2x 2xx Small to medium bus 3 33, 3x 3xx Passenger car with displacement larger than 2000cc, or exceeding length and...

and astronaut John Glenn used ThinkPad laptops on his spaceflight mission STS-95 in 1998. ThinkPad models used on Shuttle missions include: ThinkPad 750...