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    Wake Shield Facility (WSF) was a NASA experimental science platform that was placed in low Earth orbit by the Space Shuttle. It was a 3.7 m (12 ft) diameter...
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    Space Habitation Module-2 (Spacehab-2), and the first flight of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF-1). During the eight-day flight, the crew of Discovery conducted...
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    1994, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission carried the Wake Shield Facility experiment and a SPACEHAB module, developed by SPACEHAB Inc., into...
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    deployed on flight day one. It was captured on flight day sixteen. The Wake Shield Facility-3 was deployed on flight day 4, and was recaptured three days later...
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    07:10:00 EST STS-60 Discovery 6 07d 06h LC-39A Kennedy SPACEHAB Wake Shield Facility 61 4 March 1994 13:53:00 UTC 08:53:00 EST STS-62 Columbia 5 13d 23h...
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    Sega is a co-principal investigator and mission director for the Wake Shield Facility (WSF) which has flown on Space Shuttle mission STS-60 in February...
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    STS-69 Endeavour (2nd flight of the Wake Shield Facility) STS-80 Columbia (3rd flight of the Wake Shield Facility) STS-98 Atlantis (ISS Assembly Mission...
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    the Wake Shield Facility was carried into orbit by the Space Shuttle. This demonstration platform used the vacuum created in the orbital wake to manufacture...
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    successful deployment and retrieval of a SPARTAN satellite and the Wake Shield Facility (WSF). The WSF was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of using...
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    a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission, and the second flight of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF). The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on...
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    missions. Columbia was also used to retrieve the Long Duration Exposure Facility and deploy the Chandra observatory, and also carried into space the first...
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    deployment STS-60 Discovery — February 1994 — Pilot — SPACEHAB, Wake Shield Facility Thomas D. Akers (born 1951), U.S. Air Force (4 flights) STS-41 Discovery...
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    of Spacehab (Space Habitation Module) and the first flight of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF). Launched on February 3, 1994, this flight was the first Space...
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    Edwards Spacelab Astro-2 experiments‡ 9 1995-09-07 STS-69 39-A Kennedy Wake Shield Facility and other experiments 10 1996-01-11 STS-72 39-B Kennedy Retrieve...
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    which had been planned for use beginning in 1986 but was cancelled in the wake of the Challenger disaster. Beginning in late 1995, the orbiter underwent...
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    the crew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia deployed and retrieved the Wake Shield Facility (WSF) and the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer...
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  • ferroelectric oxide material systems. The Wake Shield Facility was developed at this center. Epitaxy "Wake Shield Facilty Project". uh.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-31...
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    established in 1982. One of the projects of the company was the Wake Shield Facility, a device to create near-perfect vacuum in the thermosphere. The...
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  • mission to include his work was the Space Vision System support to the Wake Shield Facility, a free flying payload that was released from Space Shuttle Discovery...
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    payload to fly in space. The primary payload for the mission was the Wake Shield Facility (or WSF), a device designed to generate new semiconductor films for...
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    Landing Facility (LLF)". Space Florida. Retrieved November 27, 2022. Jackson, Amanda (May 8, 2017). "Air Force's mysterious space plane lands, wakes up Florida"...
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    Thermal Laser Epitaxy Thin film Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser Wake Shield Facility Zhores Alferov K, Prabahar (26 October 2020). "Grain to Grain Epitaxy-Like...
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  • mission would have been flown if Mission Control determined that the heat shielding tiles and reinforced carbon-carbon panels of a currently flying orbiter...
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    the Wake Shield Facility. While helping set a Shuttle endurance record of nearly 18 days in orbit, Jones used Columbia's robot arm to release the Wake Shield...
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    successfully deployed and retrieved a SPARTAN satellite and the Wake Shield Facility (WSF). Also on board was the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker...
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    Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle Pallet Satellite II (ORFEUS-SPAS II) and Wake Shield Facility-3 deployment, operation as free-floating satellites and recapture...
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    and carried the Space Habitation Module-2 (SPACEHAB-2), and the Wake Shield Facility. The crew conducted a series of joint American/Russian science activities...
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  • Station's airlock, providing the only permanent, commercial "spare parts" facility for the ISS crew. ESP-3 was deployed during Space Shuttle mission STS-118...
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    prepared in the MPPF for STS-80, which launched in November 1996 The Wake Shield Facility-3 (WSF-3) is lowered into the payload canister for STS-80 in the...
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    17-day mission during which the crew deployed and retrieved the Wake Shield Facility (WSF) and the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer...
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