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When the Shuttle lands, everybody can take satisfaction that the
mission has gone well, because many, many people have worked
very, very long hours to pull that off. Right after you land,
you feel great, wow, the mission’s over, it went well.
Wendy Lawrence, MS STS-86 & STS-91,
NASA Shuttle-Mir Oral History July 21, 1998
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STS-63 had approached Mir in February 1995 but not docked at the station.
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Imagine what the ISS Log Book will fetch at auction one day!
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A percentile is a statistical measurement where a variable for a population is divided into 100 groups with equal frequency. Hence the 90th percentile is the value of a variable such that 90% of the relevant population is below that value. In this case, NASA included information about the human body, its size, posture, movement, surface area, volume, and mass. According to NASA Man-Systems Integration Standards Volume 1, Section 3, Anthropometry and Biomechanics, Revision B, July 1995, NASA STD-3001, these measurements are “limited to the range of personnel considered to be the most likely to be space module crewmembers or visiting personal.” Assumptions were made that the candidates would be in a good state of health, an average age of forty years, come from wide ethnic and racial backgrounds, and be either male or female. In this case the data reflected an example of a smaller frame female Japanese and a larger frame American male crewmember.
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STS-3 returned to the Northrup Strip at White Sands, New Mexico, in March 1982 because the planned landing site at Edwards was waterlogged.
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Columbia would have required a major refit in order to take participate in ISS assembly missions.
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The ‘Near-Mir’ mission was flown by Discovery. All the Mir docking missions were flown by Atlantis apart from the final two, which were flown by Endeavour and Discovery respectively.
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Shayler, D.J. (2017). Getting Back. In: Linking the Space Shuttle and Space Stations. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49769-3_10
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