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    Challenger disaster of STS-51-L. Under the new system, STS-9 would have been designated as STS-41-A. STS-9's originally planned successor, STS-10, was canceled...
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    spacewalk. Following STS-9, the flight numbering system for the Space Shuttle program was changed. Because the original successor to STS-9, STS-10, was canceled...
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    Highlands with Charles Duke. Young also commanded STS-1 in 1981, the Space Shuttle program's first launch, and STS-9 in 1983, both of which were on Columbia. He...
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    on loan from the Air Force. Shaw's first trip to space was as pilot on STS-9 Columbia from November 28 to December 8, 1983. His fellow crew included...
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    payload specialist or science astronaut on the first Spacelab mission, STS-9, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. He performed experiments in materials...
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    January 28, 1986. It was the first mission since STS-9 to use the original Space Transportation System (STS) numbering system, the first to have all its crew...
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    STS-32 was the 33rd mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the ninth launch of Space Shuttle Columbia. Launched on January 9, 1990, it marked the...
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    since STS-9. The mission launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on January 12, 1986, and landed six days later on January 18, 1986. STS-61-C's...
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    Agency's Spacelab laboratory module, which had first flown on Columbia on STS-9, and was also the last daytime landing for Columbia. Neurolab was a Spacelab...
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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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    what was his sixth spaceflight, undertook its second operational mission (STS-9), in which the Spacelab science laboratory and a six-person crew was carried...
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    astronaut. He was a mission specialist on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-9 and STS-35. He has logged over 3,500 hours flying time in jet aircraft and 463...
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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-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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    STS-61-A (also known as Spacelab D-1) was the 22nd mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. It was a scientific Spacelab mission, funded and directed...
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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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    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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    STS-1 through STS-51-L. He served as Lead Data Processing Systems (DPS) Officer for STS-9 (Spacelab-1) and STS-41-D, Orbit DPS for STS-41-B and STS-41-C...
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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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    launched on the mission. Payload specialists were flown from 1983 (STS-9) to 2003 (STS-107). The last flown payload specialist was the first Israeli astronaut...
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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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    T-9". Spacefacts. Retrieved 17 December 2017. "STS-8". Spacefacts. Retrieved 18 December 2017. "STS-9". Spacefacts. Retrieved 18 December 2017. "STS-41B"...
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    STS-51-B was the 17th flight of the NASA Space Shuttle program and the seventh flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. The launch of Challenger on April 29...
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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...
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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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    candidates in NASA Astronaut Group 9 in 1980. She flew in space five times, on the STS-61-A, STS-32, STS-50, STS-71 and STS-89, and trained in Russia as a...
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  • Manned Spaceflight (Reginald Turnill, 1978) and the first edition of the STS Flight Assignment Baseline, an internal NASA document published in October...
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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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    among the first Payload Specialists to fly in space. He flew on Spacelab-1 (STS-9) mission for ten days in 1983, conducted multiple experiments in life sciences...
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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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