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    The Extended Duration Orbiter (EDO) program was a project by NASA to prepare for long-term (months) microgravity research aboard Space Station Freedom...
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    days of microgravity. Thanks to the Extended Duration Orbiter kit, the Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia remained in orbit for almost 14 days and future missions...
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    Structures (MPESS) in the payload bay. The extended mission capability offered by the Extended Duration Orbiter (EDO) kit provides an opportunity for additional...
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    Bioreactor Flow, and Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project, a series of investigations in support of Extended Duration Orbiter. The Ultraviolet Plume...
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    Space Shuttle Columbia (category Space Shuttle orbiters)
    The Extended Duration Orbiter pallet was used by the orbiter in thirteen of the pallet's fourteen flights, which aided lengthy stays in orbit for scientific...
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    SpaceHab Research Double Module, the Orbital Acceleration Research Experiment, and an Extended Duration Orbiter pallet.: 30  The mission passed its pre-launch...
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    missions involved staying in orbit several days to two weeks, although longer missions were possible with the Extended Duration Orbiter pallet.: III–86  The 17...
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  • Corporation, an American technology company Extended data out DRAM, a type of computer memory Extended Duration Orbiter, a NASA program 9782 Edo, a main-belt...
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  • made, and the risks of launching another orbiter without resolving the failure which caused the previous orbiter to become disabled would have to be faced...
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    Freestar experiment (mounted on a Hitchhiker Program rack), and the Extended Duration Orbiter pallet. SPACEHAB was first flown on STS-57.[citation needed] On...
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    Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational...
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    environment. Solar Orbiter has inherited technology from previous missions, such as the solar arrays from the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO). The...
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    Space Shuttle Atlantis (category Space Shuttle orbiters)
    Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space...
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    Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (from Sanskrit Maṅgala, 'Mars', and yāna, 'craft, vehicle'), was a space probe orbiting Mars...
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  • Dr Schweiger announced to the Orbiter Community that Orbiter is being published under open source MIT license. Orbiter was developed by Martin Schweiger...
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    Personally nonreligious, Ramon performed traditional observance while in orbit: "I feel I am representing all Jews and all Israelis." He was the first...
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    in Rack 3, Biorack (BR) in Rack 5, Biostack (BSK) in Rack 9, Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Program (EDOMP) and Spinal Changes in Microgravity (SCM)...
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    institution. Each orbiter incorporated over 21,000 tiles. About 42 reusable RS-25 engines have been part of the STS program, with three used per orbiter per mission...
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    tests aboard the Orbiter Columbia and nine Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project experiments. The mission was accomplished in 225 orbits of the Earth...
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    cylindrical environment in the rear of the Space Shuttle orbiter payload bay, connected to the orbiter crew compartment by a tunnel. The laboratory had an...
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    flight of the United States Microgravity Laboratory and the first extended duration Orbiter flight. Over a two-week period, the STS-50 flight crew conducted...
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    Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reached Mars in March 2006, by monitoring atmospheric conditions during months when the newly arrived orbiter used aerobraking...
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    Galileo orbiter and probe to Jupiter James D. "Wxb" Wetherbee (born 1952), U.S. Navy (6 flights) STS-32 Columbia — January 1990 — Pilot — Long Duration Exposure...
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    tests aboard the Orbiter Columbia and 20 Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project experiments. The mission was accomplished in 225 orbits of the Earth....
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    tests aboard Columbia and twenty Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project experiments. The mission completed 225 orbits of the Earth, traveling five million...
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    also the first to utilize the Extended Duration Orbiter capabilities of the newly modified Orbiter Columbia. Mission duration was 331 hours, 30 minutes,...
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    designs for exercise and other countermeasure equipment for the Extended Duration Orbiter (EDO), and for Space Station Freedom, including improved treadmills...
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    and autonomous flight in orbit docking of the crewed Soyuz TM-101 with orbiter 2K crew transfer from the Soyuz to the orbiter and onboard work in the course...
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    Spectrometer (BIMS) Orbiter Ion Mass Spectrometer (OIMS) Orbiter Electron Temperature Probe (OETP) Orbiter Retarding Potential Analyzer (ORPA) Orbiter Magnetometer...
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    Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO...
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