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Images by Brian Duffy of Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Florida
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STS-72 Commander Brian Duffy
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STS-72 Commander Brian Duffy returns to Florida |
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STS-72 Commander Brian Duffy returns to Florida, looking forward to the first Shuttle flight of 1996. Duffy and a crew of five are scheduled to lift off aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on January 11 during an approximately 49-minute launch window opening at 4:18 am EST. The astronauts flew into KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility from Johnson Space Center, Houston, not too long after the countdown clock began ticking toward the 74th Shuttle liftoff. STS-72 will be Duffy's third Shuttle flight and his first as commander. |
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01.08.1996 |
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STS-92 - Shuttle Carrier Air
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STS-92 - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) |
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One of NASA's two modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is bathed in the morning Sun at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California. The modified jumbo jetliners are used to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiters between Dryden and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Boeing's Reusable Space Systems modification facility at Palmdale, California. Features which distinguish the two SCAs from standard 747 jetliners are three struts, with associated interior structural strengthening, which protrude from the top of the fuselage (two aft, one forward) on which the orbiter is attached, and two additional vertical stabilizers, one on each end of the standard horizontal stabilizer, to enhance directional stability. All interior furnishings and equipment aft of the forward No. 1 doors have also been removed to reduce weight. The two SCAs are under the operational control of NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. STS-92 was the 100th mission since the fleet of four Space Shuttles began flying in 1981. (Due to schedule changes, missions are not always launched in the order that was originally planned.) The almost 13-day mission, the 46th Shuttle mission to land at Edwards, was the last construction mission for the International Space Station prior to the first scientists taking up residency in the orbiting space laboratory the following month. The seven-member crew on STS-92 included mission specialists Koichi Wakata, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Jeff Wisoff, Bill McArthur and Leroy Chiao, pilot Pam Melroy and mission commander Brian Duffy. |
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10.29.2000 |
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In the Space Station Process
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In the Space Station Processing Facility, STS-92 crew members take part in a Leak Seal Kit Fit Check in connection with the Pressurized Mating Adapter -3 in the background. From left are Mission Specialist Peter J.K. "Jeff" Wisoff (Ph.D.), Pilot Pamela A. Melroy, Commander Brian Duffy, Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata, who represents the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), Brian Warkentine, with JSC, and a Boeing worker at right. Also participating are other crew members Mission Specialists Leroy Chiao (Ph.D.), Michael E. Lopez-Alegria and William Surles "Bill" McArthur Jr. The mission payload also includes an integrated truss structure (Z-1 truss). Launch of STS-92 is scheduled for Feb. 24, 2000 |
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07/08/1999 |
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