Final Shuttle Crew Excited About Mission

Final Shut­tle Crew Excit­ed About Mission



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Com­man­der Chris Fer­gu­son; Pilot Doug Hur­ley; and mis­sion spe­cial­ists Sandy Mag­nus and Rex Wal­heim meet with reporters at NASA’s Kennedy Space Cen­ter in their final pub­lic appear­ance before their launch aboard space shut­tle Atlantis now sched­uled for July 8 at 11:26 a.m. EDT. will deliv­er the Raf­fael­lo mul­ti-pur­pose logis­tics mod­ule filled with sup­plies and spare parts to sus­tain sta­tion oper­a­tions once the shut­tles are retired. The mis­sion also will fly the Robot­ic Refu­el­ing Mis­sion (RRM), an exper­i­ment designed to demon­strate and test the tools, tech­nolo­gies and tech­niques need­ed to robot­i­cal­ly refu­el satel­lites in space, even satel­lites not designed to be ser­viced. The crew also will return an ammo­nia pump that recent­ly failed on the sta­tion. This is the final flight for shut­tle Atlantis and the Space Shut­tle Pro­gram. NASA’s work­hors­es for the past 30 years have com­plet­ed their mis­sion to build and sup­ply the orbit­ing out­post, and the agency is now look­ing to des­ti­na­tions beyond low-Earth orbit.



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