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STS-135
STS-135 (ISS assembly flight ULF7) was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which was not flown. STS-135 launched on July 8, 2011, and landed on July 21, 2011, following a one-day mission extension. The four-person crew was the smallest of any shuttle mission since STS-6 in April 1983. The mission's primary cargo was the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) Raffaello and a Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier (LMC), which were delivered to the International Space Stat
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STS-133
STS-133 (ISS assembly flight ULF5) was the 133rd mission in NASA's Space Shuttle program; during the mission, Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station. It was Discovery's 39th and final mission. The mission launched on February 24, 2011, and landed on March 9, 2011. The crew consisted of six American astronauts, all of whom had been on prior spaceflights, headed by Commander Steven Lindsey. The crew joined the long-duration six person crew of Expedition 26, who were already aboard the space station. About a month before lift-off, one of the original crew members, Tim
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STS-134
STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6) was the penultimate mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the 25th and last spaceflight of . This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station. Mark Kelly served as the mission commander. The European segment of the mission was called "DAMA".
Shenzhou 8
eighth launch of the Shenzhou spacecraft
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ROSAT
ROSAT (short for Röntgensatellit; in German X-rays are called Röntgenstrahlen, in honour of Wilhelm Röntgen) was a German Aerospace Center-led satellite X-ray telescope, with instruments built by West Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was launched on 1 June 1990, on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, on what was initially designed as an 18-month mission, with provision for up to five years of operation. ROSAT operated for over eight years, finally shutting down on 12 February 1999.
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
NASA orbital observatory which studied Earth's atmosphere, particularly the ozone layer, and which re-entered the atmosphere in 2011
Soyuz TMA-02M
space mission that transported three people to the ISS
Soyuz TMA-01M
2010 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS
Soyuz TMA-21
2011 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS
Soyuz TMA-20
long-duration Roscosmos spaceflight to the International Space Station
Johannes Kepler ATV
European uncrewed cargo resupply spacecraft
Wide-Field Infrared Explorer
former NASA space observatory
Rasad 1
Iranian satellite
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NanoSail-D2
NanoSail-D2 was a small satellite built by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center to study the deployment of a solar sail in space. It was a three-unit CubeSat, measuring with a mass of . Its solar sail had an area of , and was deployed in around five seconds.
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Kounotori 2
cargo resupply spacecraft for the International Space Station
Progress M-12M
resupply mission or crew escape test
Progress M-11M
Russian aircraft
MIMOSA
MIMOSA (Micromeasurements of Satellite Acceleration), COSPAR 2003-031B, was a Czech scientific microsatellite. The satellite was nearly spherical with 28 sides and carried a microaccelerometer to monitor the atmospheric density profile by sensing the atmospheric drag on the approximated sphere.
Progress M-10M
Russian spacecraft
Progress M-08M
supply vehicle for the International Space Station
Progress M-07M
spacecraft for resupplying the International Space Station
Progress M-09M
Russian spacecraft
Kosmos 2388
Russian military early warning satellite
TacSat-2
TacSat-2 is the first in a series of U.S. military experimental technology and communication satellites.TacSat-2 (also known as JWS-D1 ((Joint Warfighting Space-Demonstrator 1) or RoadRunner) was an experimental satellite built by the USAF's Air Force Research Laboratory with an operational life expected to be not more than one year as part of the "Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration" program.