Origins Of The International Space Station
Origins of the International Space Station covers the origins of ISS. The International Space Station programme represents a combination of three national space station projects: the Russian/Soviet Mir-2, ''Mir''-2, NASA's Space Station Freedom, Space Station ''Freedom'' including the Japanese Kibō laboratory, and the European ''Columbus'' space stations. Canadian robotics supplement these projects. In the early 1980s, NASA planned to launch a modular space station called ''Freedom'' as a counterpart to the Soviet Salyut and ''Mir'' space stations. In 1984 the ESA was invited to participate in Space Station ''Freedom'', and the ESA approved the Columbus laboratory by 1987. The Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), or ''Kibō'', was announced in 1985, as part of the ''Freedom'' space station in response to a NASA request in 1982. In early 1985, science ministers from the European Space Agency (ESA) countries approved the ''Columbus'' programme, the most ambitious effort in space under ...
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STS-134 International Space Station After Undocking
STS-134 (ISS assembly sequence, ISS assembly flight ULF6) was the penultimate mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the 25th and last spaceflight of . This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station. Mark Kelly (astronaut), Mark Kelly served as the mission commander. STS-134 was expected to be the final Space Shuttle mission if STS-135 did not receive funding from United States Congress, Congress. However, in February 2011, NASA stated that STS-135 would fly "regardless" of the funding situation.STS-134 Mission Status
Spaceflight Now. STS-135, flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis, ''Atlantis'', took advantage of the processing for STS-3xx#STS-335, STS-335, the Launch on Need mission that would have been necessary if the STS-134 crew became st ...
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