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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of the STS-92 crew look over a tire on the landing gear of orbiter Discovery in the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1. From left to right are Mission Specialists Jeff Wisoff (pointing) and Leroy Chiao, Commander Brian Duffy and Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata, who is with the Japanese space agency. Standing behind them is Mission Specialist Michael Lopez-Alegria. The crew is at KSC to take part in Crew Equipment Interface Test activities. Others taking part are Pilot Pam Melroy and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur. STS-92 is scheduled to launch Oct. 5 on Shuttle Discovery from Launch Pad 39A on the fifth flight to the International Space Station. Discovery will carry the Integrated Truss Structure (ITS) Z1, Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 (PMA-3), Ku-band Communications System, and Control Moment Gyros (CMGs) KSC00pp0908

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of the STS-92 crew look over a tire on the landing gear of orbiter Discovery in the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1. From left to right are Mission Specialists Jeff Wisoff (pointing) and Leroy Chiao, Commander Brian Duffy and Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata, who is with the Japanese space agency. Standing behind them is Mission Specialist Michael Lopez-Alegria. The crew is at KSC to take part in Crew Equipment Interface Test activities. Others taking part are Pilot Pam Melroy and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur. STS-92 is scheduled to launch Oct. 5 on Shuttle Discovery from Launch Pad 39A on the fifth flight to the International Space Station. Discovery will carry the Integrated Truss Structure (ITS) Z1, Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 (PMA-3), Ku-band Communications System, and Control Moment Gyros (CMGs) KSC00pp0908

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Members of the STS-92 crew look over a tire on the landing gear of orbiter Discovery in the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1. From left to right are Mission Specialists Jeff Wisoff (pointing) and Leroy Chiao, Commander Brian Duffy and Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata, who is with the Japanese space agency. Standing behind them is Mission Specialist Michael Lopez-Alegria. The crew is at KSC to take part in Crew Equipment Interface Test activities. Others taking part are Pilot Pam Melroy and Mission Specialist Bill McArthur. STS-92 is scheduled to launch Oct. 5 on Shuttle Discovery from Launch Pad 39A on the fifth flight to the International Space Station. Discovery will carry the Integrated Truss Structure (ITS) Z1, Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 (PMA-3), Ku-band Communications System, and Control Moment Gyros (CMGs)

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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