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    Getaway Special was a NASA program that offered interested individuals, or groups, opportunities to fly small experiments aboard the Space Shuttle. Over...
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    systems that compensate for motion in future spacecraft. Two Get Away Special (GAS) payloads were also on board. They were the G-387 and G-388 canisters...
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    MightySat 1 Hitchhiker payload, the Space Experiment Module (SEM-07) and Getaway Special G-093 sponsored by the University of Michigan. Node 1, named Unity...
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    Experiment (FPE)), and six Getaway Special (GAS) experiments, which were all successfully performed, although the GO34 Getaway Special shut down prematurely...
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    understand bio-physiological effects of space flight; and activated four "Getaway Special" canisters. STS-8 completed 98 orbits of the Earth in 145 hours before...
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    carried a large number of small scientific experiments, including 13 Getaway Special (GAS) canisters devoted to investigations involving the effect of microgravity...
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    pallet and returned it to the payload bay. STS-7 also carried seven Getaway Special (GAS) canisters, which contained a wide variety of experiments, as...
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    atmospheric, climatic, materials and robotic science. A number of Getaway Special (GAS) canisters, covering a wide variety of materials testing and physics...
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  • The Getaway is a 1972 American action thriller film based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson. The film was directed by Sam Peckinpah, written by Walter...
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  • The Getaway is the eleventh studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released through Warner Bros. on June 17, 2016. The band's first...
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    in-flight repair which enabled them to activate the first operational "Getaway Special" (composed of nine experiments that ranged from algae and duckweed...
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    various Earth resources and space science experiments along with four "Getaway Special" canisters. STS-8 completed 98 orbits of the Earth in 145 hours before...
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    canister for the Small Self-Contained Payload program – also known as the Getaway Special (GAS) – was mounted on one side of the payload bay. For the first time...
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    designed for use in the heat rejection systems of future spacecraft. Four Getaway Special (GAS) payloads were carried. One studied the effects of cosmic rays...
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  • March 8, 2015. "Frasier: Season Two". Amazon. Retrieved March 8, 2015. "Special Collector's Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time". TV Guide. No. June...
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    deploy the Global Low Orbiting Message Relay Satellite (GLOMR) out of a Getaway Special (GAS) canister in the cargo bay, and to operate five materials processing...
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    were larger and more pure than any that could be grown on Earth. One Getaway Special (GAS) canister stored in Atlantis's payload bay carried a Canadian...
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    Flight Instrumentation (DFI) package to support flight testing. A Getaway Special, three Student Involvement Projects and medical experiments were also...
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    experiments. The crew also activated one group of the payload bay Getaway Special (GAS) canisters. SPACEHAB module experiments that were activated included...
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    Carrier Aircraft flights Shuttle Training Aircraft STS-3xx Special Deutschland-1 Getaway Special Journalist in Space Project Teacher in Space Project Shuttle-Mir...
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    the US$100-million satellite. Other STS-6 payloads included three Getaway Special (GAS) canisters and the continuation of the Mono-disperse Latex Reactor...
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    suits again until STS-26 in 1988. STS-4's cargo consisted of the first Getaway Special (GAS) payloads, including nine scientific experiments provided by students...
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    in-flight repair which enabled them to activate the first operational "Getaway Special" — comprising nine experiments that range from algae and duckweed growth...
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    Box Office Mojo. May 8, 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2018. "A Perfect Getaway (2009)". Box Office Mojo. September 17, 2009. Retrieved February 1, 2018...
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  • Transaction pricing mechanism in Ethereum Generalized audit software Getaway Special, an experiment bay on the NASA Space Shuttle GNU Assembler, a software...
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    (brains and nerves, eyes and inner ear). Other payloads included twelve Getaway Special (GAS) canisters installed on GAS bridge in cargo bay for experiments...
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    primary experiments, of which 14 were successfully performed. Two Getaway Special (GAS) experiments required that they be deployed from their canisters...
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    PUGAS (Purdue University Getaway Special) was a student run experiment package that flew on NASA's STS-7 Space Shuttle Mission aboard the Space Shuttle...
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    conducted numerous in-cabin experiments as well as activating eight Getaway Special canisters containing experiments devised by outside groups. When the...
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    conducted several in-cabin experiments as well as activating eight "Getaway Special" canisters. STS-41G completed 132 orbits of Earth in 197.5 hours, before...
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