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The Space Shuttle program occupied over 654 facilities, used over 1.2 million line items of equipment, and employed over 5,000 people. The total value of equipment was over $12 billion. Shuttle-related facilities represented over a quarter of NASA's inventory.
Two days later, after reviewing film of the launch and detecting the foam impact on the left wing, NASA engineers made a request to shuttle program managers for an in-orbit, high-resolution image of the Columbia ' s left wing to check for damage. The shuttle program managers declined the engineers' request to image the shuttle's wing before ...
Flight day 2 began for the astronauts at 15:47 UTC. The first order of business for the day was a thorough inspection of the Shuttle. Using sensors and cameras attached to a fifty-foot boom, which was in turn connected to a fifty-foot robotic arm, Nicholas Patrick inspected the leading edge of the wings and the nose cap.
The twenty-third and final spacewalk to service Hubble, and last planned EVA from a shuttle airlock replaced the final battery module, installed Fine Guidance Sensor No. 3, removed degraded insulation panels from bays 5, 7 and 8, and installed three New Outer Blanket Layers (NOBLs) in their place, and removed and reinstalled a protective cover ...
[1] [2] [3] STS-134 was expected to be the final mission of the Space Shuttle program, [4] but with the authorization of STS-135 by the United States Congress, Atlantis became the last shuttle to fly. The United States Congress approved the construction of Endeavour in 1987 to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was destroyed in 1986.
The final shuttle mission was completed with the landing of Atlantis on July 21, 2011, closing the 30-year Space Shuttle program. The Shuttle was presented to the public in 1972 as a "space truck" which would, among other things, be used to build a United States space station in low Earth orbit in the early 1990s and then be replaced by a new ...
The chairman of the Mission Management Team was not concerned and felt that the Space Shuttle would be cleared for re-entry on its return voyage—which it was a few days later. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ NASA 11 ] The payload doors were opened after reaching orbit followed by deployment of the K u band antenna and activation of the shuttle's mechanical arm .
STS 114 day before launch ESP-2 in launch configuration Shown here is the design of the LMC (Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier), which was mounted in the rear of the Shuttle's cargo bay. Mounted on the LMC is the TPS Repair Box, which would have been used in case to repair the Thermal Protection System of the Space ...