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Preflight Interview: Mark Polansky, STS-127 Commander
"It’s hard to put into words the amount of pride that I feel to be so privileged to be a part of, you know, this whole program."
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Preflight Interview: Julie Payette, STS-127 Mission Specialist
"It’s amazing that four decades after launching the first few satellites in the early sixties, that we are now able to build a space station in collaboration with other nations."
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Preflight Interview: Tom Marshburn, STS-127 Mission Specialist
"Now when you get into space, you have access to the ceiling, every corner because of zero gravity so space tends to open up for you."
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Preflight Interview: Doug Hurley, STS-127 Pilot
"The astronaut program just seemed to be the next best fit for me since I had a background in engineering and I was a pilot."
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Preflight Interview: Chris Cassidy, STS-127 Mission Specialist
"I’ve always been fascinated with space and technology and just the fact that in ten years we were able to go from zero to the moon has always fascinated me."
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Preflight Interview: Dave Wolf, STS-127 Mission Specialist
"I studied medicine and did an internship in eventually aerospace medicine in the Air Force International Guard as a Flight Surgeon and ended up applying this as a bioengineer at NASA to biomedical research projects."
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STS-127: A Porch In Space
Although they will be installing a one-of-a- kind porch in space, the astronauts of space shuttle Endeavour's mission STS-127 won’t have time to sit back and relax. Any way you look at it, STS-127 is a full mission.
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Expedition 20 Crew Launches from Baikonur
Flight Engineers Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne and Robert Thirsk of the 20th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:34 a.m. EDT Wednesday to begin a six-month stay in space.
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NASA Astronaut Watches New Star Trek Movie in Space
NASA astronaut Michael Barratt got the opportunity to watch the new Star Trek film aboard the International Space Station while he and two crewmates fly 220 miles above Earth.
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Hubble Flight Tests Toolmakers
Tool designers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center had to invent several new instruments for the STS-125 mission.