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    Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS) was an umbrella term for three separate simulators for training Space Shuttle crews at the Johnson Space Center (JSC)...
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    to be retired, completing its final mission on March 9, 2011; Endeavour did so on June 1. The final shuttle mission was completed with the landing of Atlantis...
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    The Space Shuttle Pathfinder (unofficial Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-098) is a Space Shuttle test simulator made of steel and wood. Constructed by...
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    Flight in Seattle, Washington. The Mission Simulation and Training Facility's Shuttle Mission Simulator Fixed Base Simulator originally went to the Adler Planetarium...
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  • Space Shuttle Mission 2007 is a Space Shuttle stand-alone mission simulator for Microsoft Windows. The simulator was released on January 1, 2008 after...
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    During its 22 years of operation, Columbia was flown on 28 missions in the Space Shuttle program, spending over 300 days in space and completing over...
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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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    portal Shuttle Mission Simulator List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents Young, John W.; Hansen, James R. (2012). "IV: The Shuttle Era". Forever...
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  • realistic physics simulator which allows users to explore the Solar System in a number of spacecraft, both realistic, such as the Space Shuttle Atlantis; and...
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    Mission: Space (stylized as Mission: SPACE) is a space exploration-themed pavilion and attached centrifugal motion simulator attraction located in the...
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    A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other...
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    STS-135 (redirect from Last shuttle mission)
    final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which...
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    No. TX-109-A, "NASA Johnson Space Center, Building No. 5, T-38 Flight Simulator, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, Harris County, TX", 5 photos, 1 photo caption...
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  • Shuttle is a space flight simulator game developed by Vektor Grafix and published by Virgin Games. It was released in 1992 on the IBM PC, Amiga and Atari...
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    for development. It flew 135 missions and carried 355 astronauts from 16 countries, many on multiple trips. The Space Shuttle, composed of an orbiter launched...
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    Simulator rides are a type of amusement park or fairground ride, where the audience is shown a movie while their seats move to correspond to the action...
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    opensource space flight simulator, also features many types of historical and fictional add-ons Microsoft Space Simulator Space Shuttle Mission 2007, includes...
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  • program Pathfinder (OV-098), a Space Shuttle simulator built by NASA in 1977 STS-98, Space Shuttle Atlantis mission launched February 7, 2001 Ninety-eight...
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  • situation. Space Shuttle landings were intended to regularly take place at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for Department of Defense missions launched...
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    to other ephemera, the museum contains the Shuttle Mission Simulator's GNS (Guidance and Navigation Simulator) trainer, and a full-size mockup of the Solid...
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  • The Dream Is Alive (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
    includes scenes from numerous shuttle missions, beginning with the dawn landing of Discovery at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility upon the conclusion...
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    of a Space Shuttle when landing, numerous astronaut training and Shuttle simulators, and other displays about life in space. On the ground level is the...
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    Alan G. Poindexter (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-131. Poindexter was born to John Poindexter and Linda...
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  • this flight simulator was marketed as being as educational as it was fun to play. The simulation is centered on a typical Space Shuttle mission to service...
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  • A space flight simulation is a genre of flight simulator video games that lets players experience space flight to varying degrees of realism. Common mechanics...
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  • System. It was one of the few vehicle simulators not to be released for the personal computer. The object of Space Shuttle Project is to successfully launch...
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    Space Station (ISS). The Space Shuttle fleet's total mission time was 1,323 days. Space Shuttle components include the Orbiter Vehicle (OV) with three...
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    Curtis Brown (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    assignments have included: involvement in the upgrade of the Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS), development of the Flight Data File (FDF), lead of the...
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    John Young (astronaut) (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    Space Shuttle missions. Young would routinely sit in the simulators alongside the crews to determine their effectiveness, and he flew the Shuttle Training...
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    William Frederick Fisher (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
    development (1982–1983); Astronaut office representative for Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS) development (1983); support crewman for STS-8; CAPCOM for...
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