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Practicing takeoffs and landings in the Shuttle Training Aircraft in the late afternoon sunlight, STS-95 Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. taxis across the Shuttle Landing Facility (at left) while Pilot Steven W. Lindsey waits his turn (at right). The STA is designed to fly like the Shuttle. Brown, Lindsey and the rest of the crew are at KSC for final launch preparations. STS-95 is expected to launch at 2 p.m. EST on Oct. 29, last 8 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes, and land at 11:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 7. Other crew members are Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, Mission Specialist Pedro Duque, with the European Space Agency (ESA), and Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) KSC-98pc1409

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Practicing takeoffs and landings in the Shuttle Training Aircraft in the late afternoon sunlight, STS-95 Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. taxis across the Shuttle Landing Facility (at left) while Pilot Steven W. Lindsey waits his turn (at right). The STA is designed to fly like the Shuttle. Brown, Lindsey and the rest of the crew are at KSC for final launch preparations. STS-95 is expected to launch at 2 p.m. EST on Oct. 29, last 8 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes, and land at 11:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 7. Other crew members are Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, Mission Specialist Pedro Duque, with the European Space Agency (ESA), and Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) KSC-98pc1409

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Practicing takeoffs and landings in the Shuttle Training Aircraft in the late afternoon sunlight, STS-95 Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. taxis across the Shuttle Landing Facility (at left) while Pilot Steven W. Lindsey waits his turn (at right). The STA is designed to fly like the Shuttle. Brown, Lindsey and the rest of the crew are at KSC for final launch preparations. STS-95 is expected to launch at 2 p.m. EST on Oct. 29, last 8 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes, and land at 11:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 7. Other crew members are Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, Mission Specialist Pedro Duque, with the European Space Agency (ESA), and Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)

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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26/10/1998
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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