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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.  --  STS-118 Mission Specialist Rick Mastracchio practices driving an M-113 armored personnel carrier as part of emergency exit training.  The astronauts seen behind him are Mission Specialists Alvin Drew, Barbara R. Morgan, Dave Williams (standing) and Tracy Caldwell.  Morgan joined NASA's Teacher in Space program in 1985 and was selected as an astronaut in 1998.  Williams represents the Canadian Space Agency.  The crew is at Kennedy for the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT), a dress rehearsal for launch.  TCDT activities include the M-113 training, payload familiarization, emergency egress training at the pad and a simulated launch countdown.  The STS-118 payload aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour includes the S5 truss, a SPACEHAB module and external stowage platform 3. The mission is the 22nd flight to the International Space Station and is targeted for launch on Aug.7.  NASA/George Shelton KSC-07pd1898

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- STS-118 Mission Specialist Rick Mastracchio practices driving an M-113 armored personnel carrier as part of emergency exit training. The astronauts seen behind him are Mission Specialists Alvin Drew, Barbara R. Morgan, Dave Williams (standing) and Tracy Caldwell. Morgan joined NASA's Teacher in Space program in 1985 and was selected as an astronaut in 1998. Williams represents the Canadian Space Agency. The crew is at Kennedy for the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT), a dress rehearsal for launch. TCDT activities include the M-113 training, payload familiarization, emergency egress training at the pad and a simulated launch countdown. The STS-118 payload aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour includes the S5 truss, a SPACEHAB module and external stowage platform 3. The mission is the 22nd flight to the International Space Station and is targeted for launch on Aug.7. NASA/George Shelton KSC-07pd1898

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- STS-118 Mission Specialist Rick Mastracchio practices driving an M-113 armored personnel carrier as part of emergency exit training. The astronauts seen behind him are Mission Specialists Alvin Drew, Barbara R. Morgan, Dave Williams (standing) and Tracy Caldwell. Morgan joined NASA's Teacher in Space program in 1985 and was selected as an astronaut in 1998. Williams represents the Canadian Space Agency. The crew is at Kennedy for the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT), a dress rehearsal for launch. TCDT activities include the M-113 training, payload familiarization, emergency egress training at the pad and a simulated launch countdown. The STS-118 payload aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour includes the S5 truss, a SPACEHAB module and external stowage platform 3. The mission is the 22nd flight to the International Space Station and is targeted for launch on Aug.7. NASA/George Shelton

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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