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NAMEDESCRIPTIONCITYSTATE
BIRTHPLACECOOPERSTOWN HOSPITALCOOPERSTOWNNEW YORK
STUDIEDHUNTINGTON HIGH SCHOOLLONG ISLANDNEW YORK
STUDIEDSUFFOLK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGELONG ISLANDNEW YORK
STUDIED CAL POLY TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OPISPOCALIFORNIA
FLEWF-4 PHANTOM II ( PIMA AIR AND SPACE )TUCSONARIZONA
FLEWF-14 – INTERPRID AIR & SPACENEW YORK CITYNEW YORK
INTERESTING FACTFor the five days the Shuttle was docked to Mir they were the largest spacecraft in orbit at the time. STS-71 marked the first docking of a Space Shuttle to a space stationN/AN/A
NAME OF VEHICLENAME OF ORBITERMISSION NUMBERMISSION DESCRIPTIONLOCATIONCITYSTATE
SPACE SHUTTLESPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS STS -27The Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104), at the time the youngest in NASA’s shuttle fleet, made its third flight on a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It deployed a single satellite. Atlantis’ Thermal Protection System tiles sustained extensive damage during the flight. Ablative insulating material from the right-hand solid rocket booster nose cap had hit the orbiter about 85 seconds into the flight, as seen in footage of the ascent.KENNEDY SPACE CENTERMERRIT ISLANDFLORIDA
SPACE SHUTTLESPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTISSTS-71 It was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program and the first Space Shuttle docking to Russian space station Mir. It started on 27 June 1995 with the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. The Shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. It was the first of seven straight missions to Mir flown by Atlantis.KENNEDY SPACE CENTERMERRIT ISLANDFLORIDA
SPACE SHUTTLE SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVORSTS-47 It was the 50th Space Shuttle mission of the program, as well as the second mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission mainly involved conducting experiments in life and material sciences.CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTEREXPOSITIONCALIFORNIA
SPACE SHUTTLE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGERSTS 41 B It was the tenth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on February 3, 1984, and landed on February 11 after deploying two communications satellites. It was also notable for including the first untethered spacewalkN/AN/AN/A
SPACE SHUTTLESPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIASTS 61 Cwas the 24th mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. It was the first time that Columbia, the first space-rated Space Shuttle orbiter to be constructed, had flown since STS-9.N/AN/AN/A