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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -  During emergency egress training at the pad, the STS-121 crew poses for a photo on the upper level.  From left are Mission Specialist Thomas Reiter, Commander Steven Lindsey, Pilot Mark Kelly, and Mission Specialists Stephanie Wilson, Michael Fossum, Lisa Nowak and Piers Sellers.  Behind them can be seen the top of a solid rocket booster and the external tank, part of the configuration for Space Shuttle Discovery.  The crew is at Kennedy for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities, including emergency egress training from the pad.  They will also suit up in their orange flight suits for a simulated countdown to launch. Discovery is designated to launch July 1 on mission STS-121.  It will carry supplies to the International Space Station.  Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1064

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - During emergency egress training at the pad, the STS-121 crew poses for a photo on the upper level. From left are Mission Specialist Thomas Reiter, Commander Steven Lindsey, Pilot Mark Kelly, and Mission Specialists Stephanie Wilson, Michael Fossum, Lisa Nowak and Piers Sellers. Behind them can be seen the top of a solid rocket booster and the external tank, part of the configuration for Space Shuttle Discovery. The crew is at Kennedy for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities, including emergency egress training from the pad. They will also suit up in their orange flight suits for a simulated countdown to launch. Discovery is designated to launch July 1 on mission STS-121. It will carry supplies to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd1064

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - During emergency egress training at the pad, the STS-121 crew poses for a photo on the upper level. From left are Mission Specialist Thomas Reiter, Commander Steven Lindsey, Pilot Mark Kelly, and Mission Specialists Stephanie Wilson, Michael Fossum, Lisa Nowak and Piers Sellers. Behind them can be seen the top of a solid rocket booster and the external tank, part of the configuration for Space Shuttle Discovery. The crew is at Kennedy for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities, including emergency egress training from the pad. They will also suit up in their orange flight suits for a simulated countdown to launch. Discovery is designated to launch July 1 on mission STS-121. It will carry supplies to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.

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