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John Young Robert Crippen
John Young and Robert Crippen. piolets the space shuttle coulombia on the maidon flight of the space transform sytem -
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STS 103
Discovery faced nine delays and scrubs, some mechanical and some due to the weather, before launching successfully.Before facing those postponements, the third Hubble space shuttle servicing mission had been advanced in the mission schedule. The servicing mission was originally scheduled for June 2000, but when the third of Hubble's six gyroscopes failed, the mission was split into two separate missions. The first mission, STS-103, was scheduled for Oct. 14 with the second mission to follow -
Columbia
At 9:00am they lost connection from NASA. And it was the second flight tragety that happend. -
STS 121
during the STS-121 mission to the International Space Station. It also performed maintenance on the space station and delivered supplies, equipment and a new Expedition 13 crew member to the station. This mission carried on analysis of safety improvements that debuted on the Return to Flight mission, STS-114, and built upon those tests. -
STS 116
During Space Shuttle Discovery’s continued construction of the outpost adding the P5 spacer truss segment during the first of four spacewalks. The next two spacewalks rewired the station’s power system, preparing it to support the station’s final configuration and the arrival of additional science modules. A fourth spacewalk was added to allow the crew to retract solar arrays that had folded improperly.