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STS-34 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis. It was the 31st shuttle mission overall, and the fifth flight for Atlantis . [ 1 ] STS-34 launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on October 18, 1989, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base , California , on October 23, 1989.
The longest orbital flight of the Shuttle was STS-80 at 17 days 15 hours, while the shortest flight was STS-51-L at one minute 13 seconds when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart during launch. The cold morning shrunk an O-Ring on the right Solid Rocket Booster causing the external fuel tank to explode.
April 10, 1979 Enterprise, ferry flight from Marshall Space Flight Center to Kennedy Space Center following vertical ground vibration tests at MSFC. August 10–16, 1979 Enterprise transported from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Armstrong Flight Research Center in California (via Atlanta, St. Louis, Tulsa, Denver, Hill Air Force Base Utah ...
While the "Return to Flight" mission STS-114 in 2005 was successful, a similar piece of foam from a different portion of the tank was shed. Although the debris did not strike Discovery, the program was grounded once again for this reason. The second "Return to Flight" mission, STS-121 launched on July 4, 2006, at 14:37 (EDT). Two previous ...
STS-1, Columbia: 14 April 1981 STS-1, Columbia: First Space Shuttle flight. Systems test. 83 Leonid Popov (2) Dumitru Prunariu: 14 May 1981 Soyuz 40: Salyut 6: 22 May 1981 Soyuz 40: First Romanian in space (Prunariu). Magnetic field observations. Final Soyuz flight. 84 Joseph H. Engle (1) Richard H. Truly (1) 12 November 1981 STS-2, Columbia ...
An American Airlines passenger who was gagged and bound with duct tape to her seat after being accused of attempting to open an aircraft door mid-flight has been sued by the Federal Aviation ...
STS-134 by Endeavour was expected to be the final flight before STS-135 was authorized in October 2010. STS-135 took advantage of the processing for the STS-335 Launch on Need mission that would have been necessary if STS-134's crew became stranded in orbit. [4] Atlantis landed for the final time at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011.
It’s been one year since three of Jordan Willis’ friends, Clayton McGeeney, David Harrington and Ricky Johnson, were found dead outside Willis’ rental home in Kansas City, Mo.