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a. ^ Although STS-96 was the first Space Shuttle mission to perform a docking maneuver with the ISS, it was not the first to visit the station. During the previous mission, STS-88, the Space Shuttle Endeavour used the Canadarm to first attach the newly delivered Unity module to its airlock, then grasp the Zarya module to join it with Unity ...
NDS is a spacecraft docking and berthing mechanism used on the International Space Station (ISS) and the Boeing Starliner and planned to be used on the Orion spacecraft. The international Low Impact Docking System (iLIDS) [1] was the precursor to the NDS. NDS Block 1 was designed, built, and tested by The Boeing Company in Huntsville Alabama ...
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour , and took the first American module, the Unity node , to the station. [ 2 ]
It was used for the first docking to a space station in the history of space flight, with the Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 11 missions that docked to the Soviet space station Salyut 1 in 1971. [1] [15] The docking system was upgraded in the mid-1980s to allow the docking of 20 ton modules to the Mir space station. [16]
The SpaceX Crew Dragon docked at the International Space Station on May 31, roughly 24 hours after the crew launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Footage from NASA shows the historic ...
It would have been placed on the open PMAs and converted APAS-95 to the Low Impact Docking System (LIDS). [1] ATLAS was planned to be launched on Orion's first two missions to the International Space Station. [1] Orion's missions to the ISS were later canceled altogether and its role as a crew transporter was replaced by the Commercial Crew ...
STS-113 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour.During the 14-day mission in late 2002, Endeavour and its crew extended the ISS backbone with the P1 truss and exchanged the Expedition 5 and Expedition 6 crews aboard the station.
STS-115 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the first assembly mission to the ISS after the Columbia disaster , following the two successful Return to Flight missions, STS-114 and STS-121 .