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    STS-119 (ISS assembly flight 15A) was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery during...
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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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    American educator and a NASA astronaut. He flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-119, which launched March 15, 2009, and delivered the final set of solar arrays...
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    has also flown two Space Shuttle missions, as pilot of STS-117 in 2007 and as commander of STS-119 in 2009. Archambault left NASA in 2013 after a 15-year...
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  • STS-44, STS-53, STS-69, STS-101, STS-102/105 Janice Voss (1956–2012) — STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-94, STS-99 Koichi Wakata — STS-72, STS-92, STS-119/127...
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    Earth with the crew of STS-119 Discovery on March 28, 2009, after having spent 134 days in orbit. She was assigned to the crew of STS-135, the final mission...
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    redesignated STS-401 due to the swap from Endeavour to Discovery. STS-125 was then delayed further, allowing Discovery mission STS-119 to fly beforehand...
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    of Expeditions 18, 19, and 20 on STS-119 on March 15, 2009 and returned to the earth aboard Endeavour with the STS-127 crew four and a half months later...
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  • Space Shuttle missions designated STS-3xx (officially called Launch On Need (LON) missions) were rescue missions which would have been mounted to rescue...
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    spacecraft. STS-128 repeated the Boundary Layer Transition (BLT) Detailed Test Objective (DTO) experiment that was done by the same shuttle during STS-119. In...
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    STS-126 and remained until departing on STS-119 on 25 March 2009. She was replaced by JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, who arrived at the ISS on STS-119...
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    STS-119 (2009), Soyuz TMA-04M (2012) Loren Acton — STS-51-F (1985) James C. Adamson — STS-28 (1989), STS-43 (1991) Thomas Akers — STS-41 (1990), STS-49...
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    Mission specialist, STS-119 (Discovery) Soyuz MS-08 Flight engineer, ISS Expedition 55/56 Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger (1 flight) STS-131 (Discovery) List...
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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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    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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    similar to the fault that delayed the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-119 in March 2009. Since a launch date of June 18, 2009, would have conflicted...
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    and retired NASA astronaut. Swanson has flown two shuttle flights, STS-117 and STS-119, and one Soyuz flight, TMA-12M. All of the flights were to the International...
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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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    flights) Pilot, STS-117 (Atlantis) Commander, STS-119 (Discovery) Christopher Ferguson (3 flights) Pilot, STS-115 (Atlantis) Commander, STS-126 (Endeavour)...
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    19. He completed his training on February 10, 2006, and was assigned to STS-119, which flew from March 15 to 28, 2009, to deliver the final set of solar...
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    third pair of arrays was installed during STS-117 in June 2007. A final pair arrived in March 2009 on STS-119. More solar power was to have been available...
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    STS-125, or HST-SM4 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was the fifth and final Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The...
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    third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service...
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    flights) STS-75 Columbia STS-82 Discovery STS-101 Atlantis STS-105 Discovery Brent W. Jett, Jr. (born 1958), U.S. Navy (4 flights) STS-72 Endeavour STS-81 Atlantis...
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    STS-126 was the one hundred and twenty-fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and twenty-second orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) to...
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    STS-124 was a Space Shuttle mission, flown by Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station. Discovery launched on May 31, 2008, at 17:02...
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    Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-6 on October 11, 2005. STS-119 (Space Shuttle Discovery, March 15 to 28, 2009). STS-119 was a 12-day mission to the ISS flown during...
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    Antonelli (2 flights) Pilot, STS-119 (Discovery) Pilot, STS-132 (Atlantis) Eric A. Boe (2 flights) Pilot, STS-126 (Endeavour) Pilot, STS-133 (Discovery) Kevin...
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    first being STS-72), but it flew away just after main engine start. Another bat was observed landing on the External Tank during STS-119, but remained...
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  • (STS-84, STS-97) Frederick W. Sturckow (STS-88, STS-105, STS-117, STS-128) Charles O. Hobaugh (STS-104, STS-118, STS-129) Joseph M. Acaba (STS-119, Soyuz...
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