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NASA astronaut Lisa M. Nowak
Mission Specialist STS-121
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SPACE SHUTTLE PROCESSING STATUS: 7/18/06
Mission: STS-121 - 18th International Space Station Flight (ULF1.1)
Payload: Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
Vehicle:
Discovery (OV-103)
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Launch Date: July 4, 2006 at 2:38 p.m.
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Landing Date: July 17, 2006 at 9:14 a.m.
Crew: Lindsey, Kelly, Sellers, Fossum, Nowak, Wilson and Reiter
Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles
After 12 days, 18 hours and 37 minutes of flight, orbiter Discovery safely landed at Kennedy Space Center today with a main landing geartouchdown
at 9:14:43 a.m. EDT. The nose landing gear touched down at 9:14:53 a.m. The orbiter came to a full stop at 9:15:49 a.m.
Discovery made 202 trips around the Earth and traveled 5.3 million miles during the mission. Following a four-hour period
of landing operations at the shuttle landing strip, the orbiter systems were safed and technicians connected Discovery to
ground support equipment for ground cooling and purging of the interior spaces. Preliminary inspections revealed 93 total
hits to the orbiter's thermal protection system with 11 greater than one inch in diameter. The vehicle was towed to Orbiter
Processing Facility bay 3, where the processing flow will begin for its next mission, STS-116, targeted for launch in December.
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