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    R-bar pitch maneuver (RPM), popularly called the rendezvous pitch maneuver or backflip, was a maneuver performed by the Space Shuttle as it rendezvoused with...
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    System. On July 29 Discovery rendezvoused with the ISS and, before docking, performed the first rendezvous pitch maneuver to allow the crew aboard the...
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    +01:20:39 Orbiter docked with ISS after performing the first-ever Rendezvous pitch maneuver 05:46 EDT: T +03:19:07 Noguchi and Robinson begin first spacewalk...
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  • Raven's Progressive Matrices, a cognitive test Rapid plant movement Rendezvous pitch maneuver, by a space shuttle RPM-30-2-Can Do: Respiration, Pulse (or Perfusion)...
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    other components to the telescope. This was the final mission not to rendezvous with the ISS. The longest mission flown using Atlantis was STS-117, which...
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    lands after its first flight, STS-41-D Discovery performing the Rendezvous pitch maneuver prior to docking with the International Space Station The Space...
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    docking with the International Space Station, Discovery performed a Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, simply a 360° backflip rotation, allowing all areas of the vehicle...
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    Commercial Crew Development Building the Next Era in Spaceflight" (PDF). Rendezvous. NASA. 2010. pp. 10–17. Retrieved February 14, 2011. Just as in the COTS...
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    experts to discuss the planned photography shoot during Atlantis's rendezvous pitch maneuver (RPM). During the mission status briefing from the Johnson Space...
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    areas, as evidenced in imagery captured during lift-off or the rendezvous pitch maneuver, then additional regions could be scanned. The OBSS was introduced...
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    The Orbit Attitude and Maneuvering System (OAMS) was a reaction control system used in Earth orbit by the Project Gemini spacecraft. It provided both...
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    orbiter though rather charred. Following rendezvous with the ISS, the shuttle performed a rendezvous pitch maneuver prior to docking to allow the ISS crew...
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  • second option that was evaluated, would be for the rescue orbiter to rendezvous with the damaged orbiter, and perform station-keeping while using its...
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    the station, Discovery and its crew performed the first-ever rendezvous pitch maneuver, which allowed the two crew members aboard the station to photograph...
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    Endeavour performed the one-degree-per-second backflip, called the Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver (RPM), so the ISS crew members could take digital pictures of...
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    docked, Commander Rick Sturckow performed what is known as the Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver while Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer...
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    the forward underside and crew cabin of Discovery during the Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver. A view of the aft portion of Discovery's main engines, part of...
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  • areas, as evidenced in imagery captured during lift-off or the rendezvous pitch maneuver, then additional regions could be scanned. Osculating orbit –...
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    said the team would evaluate the data obtained during Saturday's Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, performed prior to docking, as well as the imagery from the OBSS...
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    each other during rendezvous and docking activities on Flight Day 3 Atlantis performing a back-flip for the rendezvous pitch maneuver Jeffrey Williams...
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    crew of STS-120 worked through the rendezvous procedures in the morning leading to the rendezvous pitch maneuver which began at 11:34 UTC. Following...
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    STS-117 Commander Rick Sturckow performed what is known as the Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver (RPM). The back flip RPM allowed station crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin...
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    flight also included the first attempt to make a space rendezvous as McDivitt attempted to maneuver his craft close to the Titan II upper stage which launched...
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    positioned itself beneath the ISS and began the 360-degree flip rendezvous pitch maneuver (RPM). As the shuttle's underside rotated into view, three ISS...
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    in the morning preparing for rendezvous and docking with the space station. After performing the rendezvous pitch maneuver (RPM) to allow the Expedition...
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    the orbiter. Ferguson guided the shuttle manually through the Rendezvous pitch maneuver (RPM) while station crew used 400 mm (16 in) and 800 mm (31 in)...
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    docking commander Poindexter guided Discovery through the standard Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver (RPM). Station commander Oleg Kotov and flight engineer T.J. Creamer...
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  • True Feelings That Are Totally Not Mainstream" Disclosure 11. "Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver" Disclosure 12. "What Becomes of a Satellite That's Lost Its Planet...
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    guided the shuttle through a 360-degree backflip, known as the rendezvous pitch maneuver, to allow for full photographic surveillance of the thermal tiles...
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    Flight day 3 began for the astronauts at 15:18 UTC. Following the rendezvous pitch maneuver, docking to the International Space Station occurred at 22:12...
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