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STS 114 day before launch ESP-2 in launch configuration Shown here is the design of the LMC (Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier), which was mounted in the rear of the Shuttle's cargo bay. Mounted on the LMC is the TPS Repair Box, which would have been used in case to repair the Thermal Protection System of the Space ...
Soichi Noguchi (野口 聡一, Noguchi Sōichi, born 15 April 1965) is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and former JAXA astronaut.His first spaceflight was as a mission specialist aboard STS-114 on 26 July 2005 for NASA's first "return to flight" Space Shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster.
The Space Shuttle Discovery performing the rendezvous pitch maneuver during STS-114.. The R-bar pitch maneuver (RPM), popularly called the rendezvous pitch maneuver or backflip, [1] was a maneuver performed by the Space Shuttle as it rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) prior to docking.
Space Shuttle mission STS-114, NASA's first test mission after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Space Shuttle mission STS-121 , NASA's second test mission following the Columbia disaster ISRO 's successful launch of GSLV -D5 with indigenously developed CE-7.5 cryogenic rocket engine
Charles Joseph "Charlie" Camarda (born May 8, 1952, in Queens, New York) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who flew his first mission into space on board the Space Shuttle mission STS-114. He served as Senior Advisor for Engineering Development at NASA Langley Research Center .
The codes were adopted from STS-41-B through STS-51-L (although the highest code used was actually STS-61-C), and the sequential numbers were used internally at NASA on all processing paperwork. After the Challenger disaster, NASA returned to using a sequential numbering system, with the number counting from the beginning of the STS program ...
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The first EVA to perform an in-flight repair of the Space Shuttle was by American Steve Robinson on August 3, 2005, during "Return to Flight" mission STS-114. Robinson was sent to remove two protruding gap fillers from Discovery's heat shield, after engineers determined there was a small chance they could affect the shuttle upon re-entry.