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A subsequent mission extension was approved on 3 July 2007, to bring the spacecraft back to full operation for a flyby of Comet Tempel 1 in 2011. The mission extension was the first to revisit a small Solar System body and used the remaining propellant, signaling the end of the useful life for the spacecraft.
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Discovery touched down on runway 33 at 13:01:18 EST, the rear landing gear touching down first, the nose gear touching down at 13:01:32 EDT, and the orbiter came to a complete stop at 13:02:13 EDT. [110] [111] Total mission time was 15 days, 2 hours, 23 minutes, 55 seconds, for a distance of 6.25 million miles in 238 orbits.
The success of fellow Discovery program mission Stardust was noted as supporting future sample return missions, and in particular supporting the SCIM concept. [1] This Stardust mission was similar in that it returned extraterrestrial material to Earth with an unmanned robotic spacecraft.
STS-64 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission that was set to perform multiple experiment packages. It was Discovery's 19th flight. It was Discovery's 19th flight. STS-64 was launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on 9 September 1994, and landed back on 20 September 1994 at Edwards Air Force Base .
The mission's first launch attempt was delayed due to weather concerns, including multiple weather violations in NASA's launch rules, beginning over two hours before the scheduled launch. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The second launch attempt, scheduled for August 26, 2009, at 01:10:22 EDT, was called off the previous evening due to an anomaly in one of ...
Cate (Jodie Sweetin of Full House) is a candy cane company CEO who teams up with Gabe (Andrew Walker) — a corporate analyst — to make her operation more profitable.
Atlantis touches down after 11 days in space, completing the STS-129 mission. Landing video (8 mins 4 secs) The Shuttle crew awoke Friday at 05:28 UTC. [89] With weather looking good at the Kennedy Space Center, and nothing standing in the way of landing, Flight Director Bryan Lunney gave the "go" signal to close the payload bay doors at 10:52 UTC.