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Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from to , operated by the .. Two further arrays were flown to the station on board the Space Shuttle . Two amateur radio call signs, U1MIR and U2MIR, were assigned to Mir in the NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger related how life on board Mir was structured.
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The project tested an international docking system and joint space-flight procedures, but is remembered most for the first space handshake between crews from different nations. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, and Donald K. In addition to rendezvous, docking, crew transfer, and joint control center-crew operations, the crews gave televised tours of their spacecraft and performed joint solar eclipse experiments.
The Johnson Space Center designed, developed, produced, and tested its first shuttle, Enterprise , after the project was approved by President Richard M. Nixon on January 5, Winged space shuttles, like airplanes, could reenter from space and land on runways instead of hitting the ocean and could serve not only as launch vehicles, but as science laboratories, earth-observation outposts, and repair and retrieval stations for satellites.
On April 12, , the shuttle Columbia was first launched into space on a test flight carrying John W. Young and Robert L. The launch saw many firsts for the manned-space-flight program. It was the first space flight of the space shuttle system and the first to use solid rocket boosters.
The Columbia was also was the first orbiter that, with its three main engines, could be refurbished and reused. Columbia 's second crew, launched on November 12, , cut short its mission when trouble developed with one of the craft's three fuel cells. Nonetheless, the crew tested a Canadian-built remote manipulator system with a giant robotic arm designed to deploy and retrieve satellites.
On April 4, , Challenger set out with a four-member crew, including Donald H. Peterson and F. Story Musgrave, that completed the first shuttle spacewalk. Other orbiters, Discovery , Atlantis , and Endeavour , were added to the shuttle fleet between and The shuttle program involved not only experienced military pilots but also scientists and technical specialists from a variety of backgrounds. On June 18, , mission specialist Sally K. Ride, a physicist, became the first American woman to fly in space.
The third Challenger flight carried Guion S. Bluford, Jr.
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Thornton, at that time the oldest astronaut fifty-four years old; subsequently, Vance Brand, age fifty-nine, surpassed Thornton's age on the STS mission in December The STS-8 launch occurred on August 30, The Columbia STS-9 Spacelab mission, launched on November 28, , put into orbit a scientific workshop built by the European Space Agency to enable scientists and astronauts to conduct experiments in space and carried the first non-American to fly on a United States spacecraft, Ulf Merbold, a German physicist.
His crewmate, Robert L. Stewart, made extravehicular repairs on satellites that led to the shuttle's ability to make "service calls" in space. The Challenger STSC launch of April 6, , effected the first space rescue of a failed satellite, a disabled Solar Max that had been drifting for three years, which astronauts retrieved, repaired, and re-launched. The first flight to include seven crew members began on October 5, On this flight Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space. The flight included the first Canadian astronaut, Marc Garneau, and demonstrated the first in-orbit refueling to extend a satellite's life.
In , missions focused on life and material-sciences experiments, and West Germany financed and operated a Spacelab mission. On January 28, , a leak in a solid rocket booster seal caused the shuttle Challenger to explode shortly after liftoff. All the crew died—Francis R.
Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Jarvis of Hughes Aircraft and S. Christa McAuliffe, a New Hampshire school teacher who was to be the first passenger-observer in the United States space program and the first "teacher-in-space. After being grounded for thirty-two months, astronauts reentered space on September 29, , as part of a Discovery mission, and subsequent shuttle launches carried major interplanetary and astronomical payloads.
Atlantis launched the Magellan spacecraft to Venus in May , and Galileo began a six-year journey to orbit Jupiter in October The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed by Discovery in April , and a second Great Observatory, the Gamma Ray Observatory, was launched by Atlantis in to make images of objects at high energy wavelengths. Endeavour 's maiden voyage in May demonstrated the flexibility of shuttle astronauts and ground controllers to handle real-time problems. After three unsuccessful attempts at retrieving a stranded Intelsat satellite, astronauts Pierre Thout, Rick Hieb and Tom Akers improvised the first three-man spacewalk and successfully captured the satellite by hand.
The spacecraft's next voyage carried Spacelab J, the first joint United States and Japanese space-shuttle mission, with the first Japanese citizen, Mamoru Mohri, to fly on a shuttle, the first black woman in space, Mae C. Jemison, and the first married couple on a mission. By , when Ellen Ochoa on Discovery became the first Hispanic woman in space, the space shuttle fleet had launched fifty-four successful missions, traveled more than million statute miles, and flown individuals in space, including sixteen non-United States astronauts from ten countries.
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In President Ronald Reagan committed the nation to develop a permanently staffed space station within a decade, and in September a formal international agreement was reached among Japan, Canada, and ten European Space Agency members to participate in the Space Station Freedom program. Space Station Freedom experienced several budget cuts, cost overruns, delays, and redesigns in the ensuing years, and funding for the entire program was nearly discontinued by Congress in To achieve cost savings, President William J.
Clinton ordered the station redesigned and management streamlined. The end of the Cold War also presented new opportunities for the project to evolve. From to , a series of cooperative agreements were reached for joint United States-Russian space activities, including Russian participation in the building of the proposed space station. As a result, plans for Space Station Freedom , which included modules built by the U. The renewed sense of cooperation between Cold War-era foes also resulted in the establishment of the U. In the process, American astronauts gained invaluable experience in multi-national crew and cargo exchanges, long-duration space flights, and space station module assembly.
Construction of the ISS was eventually completed in In total, the project required spacewalks and over 1, hours of assembly time.
Upon completion, the ISS covered the length of a football field, amassed more than metric tons, and provided more livable space than a conventional five-bedroom home, with two bathrooms, a gymnasium, and ample space for crews to conduct research experiments. As of October , the station had hosted visitors and spacecraft from four different countries, with plans to continue operation until at least In , construction began on the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a 6.
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The new facility allowed for crews to practice the various tasks necessary for ISS assembly in a simulated weightless environment. Also in , construction began on an addition to the center's historic Mission Control Center, with updated technology and new flight control rooms outfitted to oversee all aspects of space station operations. Tragically, all seven crews members—Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Brown, and Laurel Blair Salton Clark—were killed, and space shuttle flight operations were grounded for more than two years. After a six month investigation it was determined that a piece of foam insulation, shed from one of the shuttle's external tanks during launch, had damaged the orbiter's left wing.
In the wake of the disaster, President George W. Bush announced his "Vision for Space Exploration" in January The plan called for the completion of the ISS, the development of a replacement for the aging shuttle program, and a return to the moon by , with the eventual goal of sending a manned mission to Mars.
The center's primary contribution to the Constellation program was the design and development of the Crew Exploration Vehicle now known as the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle , an Apollo-like spacecraft designed to carry an enlarged crew beyond low-Earth orbit and into deep space.
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Johnson Space Center engineers also began developing new robotics technologies, conceptual designs for a new lunar lander, and research into the effects of long-duration, deep-space flight on human crew members. However, Constellation was discontinued in after President Barack Obama announced a policy shift that emphasized the development of commercial manned space flight.
The end of the shuttle and Constellation programs, coupled with sustained budget cuts, lead to substantial downsizing of the center's workforce, as well as the demolition and consolidation of some of the on-site facilities. Subsequently, the center pivoted towards the development of strategic partnerships with emerging technology companies. Although the center continues its work on the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the operation of the International Space Station, and research into the possibilities of human deep-space travel, it also serves a pivotal role in coordinating with private companies such as SpaceX and Orbital ATK to engineer the next generation of space transportation.
This work resulted in the first successful resupply mission to the ISS by a privately-developed spacecraft, the SpaceX Dragon, in October Visitors can tour Mission Control and astronaut-training facilities at the Johnson Space Center, view historical spacecraft and displays, watch several movies including IMAX and 4K film shot in space, and explore a museum of the American space program.
No NASA funds were used for the visitor center construction or operations. In the visitor center opened Independence Plaza, an exhibit complex allowing visitors to access Independence , a full-scale replica of the space shuttle. That same year, the center hosted nearly one million visitors, and engaged in outreach and educational programs involving more than , students and educators.
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