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STS-114 was the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Discovery launched at 10:39 EDT (14:39 UTC ) on her 31st flight on July 26, 2005.
The crawler-transporters have featured in television and movies. In a 2007 season three episode of Dirty Jobs, host Mike Rowe helps workers maintain a crawler-transporter and takes the vehicle for a short drive. [18] The crawler was also seen in the 1995 film Apollo 13, the 2011 film Transformers: Dark of the Moon and the 2019 film Apollo 11.
STS-96: Inspection failure Discovery was moved back to the VAB to repair hail damage to the external tank foam insulation. 14 2001-01-02 Atlantis: STS-98: Crawler failure Atlantis began rollout to Launch Pad 39A, but an hour later stopped on the crawler path so engineers could troubleshoot a failed computer processor on the crawler transporter ...
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 Discovery as it approaches the International Space Station during STS-114 on July 28, 2005. This was the Shuttle's "return to flight" mission after the Columbia disaster The Shuttle program operated accident-free for seventeen years and 88 missions after the Challenger disaster, until Columbia broke up on reentry , killing all ...
The STS-114 ET losing a large piece of foam The first Return to Flight mission, STS-114, began with the launch of Discovery on July 26, 2005, at 10:39 am (EDT). [ 43 ] Sixteen pieces of foam from the ET were dislodged during the launch that were large enough to be considered significant by NASA investigators, [ 44 ] : 7 including one piece that ...
The Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, when berthed to the ISS during STS-114 A Multi-Purpose Logistics Module ( MPLM ) is a large pressurized container that was used on Space Shuttle missions to transfer cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
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.