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After STS-115 the rescue mission designations changed again. On April 12 1981 NASAs maiden space shuttle Columbia lifted off for the first time 30 years ago carrying astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen.

Behind The Space Shuttle Mission Numbering System Nasa

After 30 years NASAs storied space shuttle program comes to a close in 2011.

List of space shuttle missions. From Saturn to Shuttle to SpaceX and SLS. Mission Launch Date Mission Information. First missions in which a spacecraft was reused Shuttle-Mir program.

Space Shuttle program. The last three Apollo missions were canceled because of budgetary That is when the first space shuttle mission STS 1 was launched. 050489 STS-30 Site.

022890 STS-36 Site. The death was later ruled a suicide. Visit NASAgov for current information.

111590 STS-38 Site. Canceled due to the late development of the Space Shuttle. First Shuttle Flight.

ISS Launched to be part of the crew of the International Space Station. 040591 STS-37 Site. STS-129 STS-128 STS-127 STS-125 STS-119.

100385 STS-51J Site. After STS-121 the rescue flight for STS-115 if needed would have been STS-301. 112685 STS-61B Site.

STS-126 STS-124 STS-123 STS-122. In 1972 NASAs planners had projected for 570 Space Shuttle missions between 1980 and 1991. STS-300 was the designation for the Space Shuttle rescue missions to be launched on short notice for STS-114 and STS-121.

Americans flew on Russian Soyuz after 2011 retirement of Space Shuttle Commercial Crew Program. This is a list of persons who served aboard Space Shuttle crews arranged in chronological order by Space Shuttle missions. PC Payload Commander.

MSE USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer. Vanover a swing-arm contractor for United Space Alliance fell to his death during preparations for a Space Shuttle mission. Joint with Roscosmos CSA ESA and JAXA.

Space Shuttle components include the Orbiter Vehicle OV with three clustered Rocketdyne RS-25 main engines a pair of recoverable solid rocket boosters SRBs and the expendable external tank ET containing liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. 1993 1995 1998 11. 101889 STS-34 Site.

NASAs three flying shuttles Discovery Atlantis and Endeavour are each flying their final mission this year. Later this estimate was lowered to 487 launches between 1980 and 1992. 1977 1981 1988 1989 1991 1993 1997 2002 2005 2012 2015 First and second generation.

Russian partnership International Space Station. 120288 STS-27 Site. 1993 1998 Ongoing 63.

List of Space Shuttle missions canceled or remanifested after the Challenger L the 12th Space Shuttle mission manifested by NASA for flight in 1985. Mir Launched to be part of the crew of the Mir Space Station. The Space Shuttle fleets total mission time was 1322 days 19 hours 21 minutes and 23 seconds.

080291 STS-43 Site. Two workers cleaning out a propellant tank died when exposed to poisonous nitrogen tetroxide gases within the tank. The final shuttle flight NASAs STS-135 mission aboard Atlantis will land Thursday July 21 to cap a 13-day trip that delivered supplies and spare parts to the International Space.

141 rijen This is a chronological list of expeditions to the International Space Station ISSAll.