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| Space Shuttle: Astronaut Fact Sheets | ||
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Selection and Training (NP-1997-07-006JSC) A general overview of astronaut selection and training. (July '97) |  (192k) | |
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Fact Book (NP-1998-07-008JSC) A comprehensive fact sheet of current and past astronauts. (July '98) | (185k) | |
| Space Shuttle: Shuttle/Mission Fact Sheets | ||
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21st Century Space Shuttle (FS-2000-03-010-JSC) The launch of Atlantis in April 2000 will bring one of the most visible shuttle improvements to light, a new "glass cockpit." But, throughout its history, thousands of improvements both large and small have been made to the shuttle fleet, making today's shuttle safer and more capable than ever before. And further upgrades now under way are aimed at doubling the launch safety of the shuttle by 2005. This eight-page color fact sheet describes past, present and future space shuttle improvements (March 2000). | ||
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Mission STS-96: First Visit to a New Outpost in Orbit (IS-1999-03-ISS025JSC) A general overview of the STS-96 shuttle mission. (March '99) | (326k) | |
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Mission Highlights STS-88
(IS-1998-12-002.088JSC) | (919k) | |
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Highlights: STS-91 (IS-1998-06-001.091JSC) Mission highlights of the STS-91 shuttle mission. (June '98) | (715k) | |
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Highlights STS-95 (IS-1998-10-001.095JSC) Mission highlights of the STS-95 shuttle mission. (October '98) | ||
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Highlights STS-96 (IS-1999-05-001.096JSC) Mission highlights of the STS-96 shuttle mission (May '99) | (571k) | |
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Highlights STS-93 (IS-1999-07-001.093JSC) Mission highlights of the STS-93 shuttle mission (July '99) | (274k) | |
| Space Station: Overviews and Assembly Information | ||
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International Space Station: An Overview (IS-1999-06-ISS022) A general overview of all facets of the ISS. (June '99) | (301k) | |
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The First Steps to a New Home in Orbit (IS-1999-06-ISS023) A six-page fact sheet that provides an overview of the International Space Station, its potential and its early assembly in orbit through the year 2000. (June '99) | (286k) | |
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Assembly Sequence: Revision E (IS-1999-06-ISS012JSC) An archive fact sheet that outlines the Rev E. flight sequence of assembly in orbit for the International Space Station, including details on the type of launcher, components launched, date of launch and functions served as well as a graphical representation of each flight. (June '99) | (690k) | |
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Control of the ISS: Unity and Zarya (IS-1999-05-ISS023) Flight control of the Zarya module and the International Space Station following assembly with Unity is conducted from locations in both the United States and in Russia, with the primary oversight for all operations resting with NASA. (May '99) | (9k) | |
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Space Station: A Construction Site in Orbit (IS-1999-06-ISS013JSC) A complete overview of the orbital assembly of the International Space Station, describing an unprecedented era of spacewalking construction and a new generation of space robotics that will be used to build the station. The details and highlights of spacewalks planned during specific station assembly flights are described in Appendix 1. Spacewalk flight tests that have been conducted during the past decade in preparation for assembly are described in detail in Appendix 2. (June '99) | (814k) | |
| The TransHab Module: An Inflatable Home in Space (IS-1999-05-ISS027JSC) A four-page fact sheet describing the inflatable TransHab module concept that has been proposed as a living quarters for the International Space Station. (May '99) | (635k) | |
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Space Station Familiarization Training Manual A comprehensive online training manual produced for ISS astronauts. (July '98) |
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International Space Station:
Assembly Complete (lithograph)
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| Zarya
- (Functional Cargo Block) (IS-1999-01-ISS014JSC) An overview of the U.S.-funded, Russian-built Zarya control module, or Functional Cargo Block (Russian acronym FGB), which will become the first component of ISS to be launched when it is boosted into orbit by a Russian Proton rocket from Kazakstan in November 1998. (Jan. '99) | (318k) | |
| Unity
Background Information (IS-1999-01-ISS017JSC) An overview of the Unity connecting module, sometimes referred to as Node 1, the first U.S.-built component of ISS and the cargo for the first ISS assembly Space Shuttle mission (STS-88), which will be connected in orbit with Zarya. (Jan. '99) | (194k) | |
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Zvezda Service Module: A Cornerstone of Russian International Space Station
Modules (IS-1999-06-ISS019JSC) A description of the first fully Russian contribution to the International Space Station, the Zvezda Service Module, a module that will provide for the first human habitation of the station and provide many early critical systems (June '99) | (298k) | |
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Module: A "Moving Van" for the ISS (IS-1998-10-ISS021JSC) A two-page fact sheet that describes the Italian Space Agency-built, U.S.-owned Leonardo multipurpose logistics module. The Leonardo and two subsequent modules will be used to carry internal supplies to and from the station aboard the Space Shuttle throughout the station's operation. (Oct. '98) | (330k) | |
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Flight 2R: First Crew on
the International Space Station (IS-1999-06-ISS020JSC) | (75k) | |
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Improving Life on Earth and in Space The NASA Research Plan, An Overview An overview of the primary scientific research that will take place aboard the International Space Station and how that research will benefit lives on Earth through medicine, industry and fundamental science, as well as providing an essential step to future space exploration beyond Earth orbit. (Feb '98) | Overview Online (new window) | Executive Summary (443k) |
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Space Station Human Research Facility (IS-1998-03-ISS015JSC) A description of one of the scientific facilities on the International Space Station that will be used for medical studies of the human body in weightlessness. (March '98) |  | (35k) |
| Gravitational
Biology Facility and Centrifuge Facility (ARC-97-04) A description of scientific facilities aboard the International Space Station that will be used to study the effects of weightlessness on plants and animals. (Apr. '97) | (422k) | |
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1 Program Joint Report (NASASP-1999-6108) The Phase 1 Program Joint Report contains a brief description of Mir-Shuttle and Mir-NASA program operations, the main achievements of the programs, and also lessons and recommendations ISS operations. (Feb. 98) | (4600k) | |
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History of U.S. Space Stations (IS-1997-06-ISS009JSC) Historical information about the US work with space stations from Skylab in the 1970s to the inception of the International Space Station. (June '97) | (134k) | |
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International Space Station:
Russian Space Stations (IS-1997-06-004JSC) | (141k) | |
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For Space Flight (NP-1996-07-007JSC) An overview of food systems and food preparation in space. (July '96) | Online | (329k) |
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X-38: Back to the Future for a Spacecraft Design (IS-1998-03-ISS009JSC) An overview of the X-38 project, developing an innovative prototype crew return vehicle "lifeboat" for the International Space Station that may also find use as an international "people and luggage" future space transport. (March '98) | (255k) | |
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International Space Station: Benefits from the Shuttle-Mir Program
(IS-1998-08-ISS010JSC) An overview of the lessons learned in science, engineering and international coordination from more than two years spent onboard the Russian Mir space station by US astronauts and how those lessons have been applied to the International Space Station. (Aug. '98) | (87k) | |
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