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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "Columbia’s flight in April 1981 kicks off a testing period that notches one milestone after another.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-1: Columbia
April 12-14, 1981.
First shuttle flight.
Crew: Young, Crippen.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-2: Columbia
Nov. 12-14, 1981.
First tests of robot arm.
Crew: Engle, Truly.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-3: Columbia
March 22-30, 1982.
Only landing in New Mexico.
Crew: Lousma, Fullerton.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-4: Columbia
June 27-July 4, 1982.
First classified payload.
Crew: Mattingly, Hartsfield.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-5: Columbia
Nov. 11-16, 1982.
First commercial satellite deployment.
Crew: Brand, Overmyer, Allen, Lenoir. ";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-6: Challenger
April 4-9, 1983.
First shuttle spacewalk.
Crew: Weitz, Bobko, Peterson, Musgrave.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-7: Challenger
June 18-24, 1983.
First U.S. woman astronaut (Ride).
Crew: Crippen, Hauck, Ride, Fabian, Thagard.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-8: Challenger
Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 1983.
First night launch and landing, first black astronaut (Bluford).
Crew: Truly, Brandenstein, Bluford, Gardner, Thornton.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-9: Columbia
Nov. 28-Dec. 8, 1983.
First Spacelab research mission, first European Space Agency astronaut (Merbold).
Crew: Young, Shaw, Parker, Garriott, Lichtenberg, Merbold.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "41-B: Challenger
Feb. 3-11, 1984.
First untethered spacewalk, first Florida landing.
Crew: Brand, Gibson, McCandless, Steward, McNair. ";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "41-C (STS-13): Challenger
April 6-13, 1984.
First in-orbit satellite repair.
Crew: Crippen, Scobee, Hart, van Hoften, Nelson.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "41-D (STS-14): Discovery
Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 1984.
Three satellites deployed.
Crew: Hartsfield, Coats, Mullane, Hawley, Resnik, Walker.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "41-G (STS-17): Challenger
Oct. 5-13, 1984.
First U.S. woman to walk in space (Sullivan).
Crew: Crippen, McBride, Leestma, Ride, Sullivan, Scully-Power, Garneau.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "51-A: Discovery
Nov. 8-16, 1984.
First retrieval of two satellites for return to Earth.
Crew: Hauck, Walker, Allen, Fisher, Gardner.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "Hubble and the space
station are upgraded,
but Columbia and
its crew are lost.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-109: Columbia
March 1-12, 2002.
New camera and other upgrades installed on Hubble Space Telescope.
Crew: Altman, Carey, Grunsfeld, Currie, Newman, Linnehan, Massimino.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-110: Atlantis
April 8-19, 2002.
At space station, astronauts work on 43-foot-long truss and space railroad.
Crew: Bloomfield, Frick, Walheim, Ochoa, Morin, Ross, Smith.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-111: Endeavour
June 5-19, 2002.
Station crew exchange.
Crew: Cockrell, Lockhart, Chang-Diaz, Perrin. Arrival: Korzun, Whitson, Treschev. Departure: Onufrienko, Walz, Bursch.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-112: Atlantis
Oct. 7-16, 2002
First shuttle-cam launch; truss installation at station.
Crew: Ashby, Melroy, Magnus, Sellers, Wolf, Yurchikhin. ";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-113: Endeavour
Nov. 23-Dec. 7, 2002.
Station crew exchange, truss delivery.
Crew: Wetherbee, Lockhart, Lopez-Alegria, Herrington. Arrival: Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit. Departure: Korzun, Whitson, Treschev.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-107: Columbia
Jan. 16-Feb. 1, 2003.
Shuttle breaks up at end of science mission with first Israeli astronaut (Ramon).
Crew: Husband, McCool, Chawla, Brown, Anderson, Clark, Ramon.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "More than two years
after Columbia,
the shuttle fleet
goes back into service.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-114: Discovery
July 26-Aug. 9, 2005.
Station repair, resupply and safety check.
Crew: Collins, James Kelly, Robinson, Noguchi, Lawrence, Thomas, Camarda.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-121: Discovery
July 4-17, 2006.
Addition to space station crew, plus repair, resupply, safety check.
Crew: Lindsey, Mark Kelly, Fossum, Sellers, Nowak, Wilson. Arrival: Reiter (first European station crew member).";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-115: Atlantis
Sept. 9-21, 2006.
Space station resupply and installation of power-generating truss.
Crew: Jett, Ferguson, Tanner, Burbank, Stefanyshyn-Piper, MacLean.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-116: Discovery
Dec. 9-21, 2006.
Truss installation, power hookup and crew change at space station.
Crew: Polanski, Oefelein, Higginbotham, Curbeam, Patrick, Fuglesang, Williams (arrival), Reiter (departure).";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-117: Atlantis
June 8-22, 2007.
Truss and solar arrays delivered; crew change at space station.
Crew: Sturckow, Archambault, Reilly, Forrester, Swanson, Olivas, Anderson (arrival), Williams (departure).";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-118: Endeavour
Aug. 8-21, 2007. First Endeavour flight since 2002.
Teacher (Morgan) flies in space; truss segment delivery; space station resupply.
Crew: Kelly, Hobaugh, Mastracchio, Williams, Morgan, Caldwell, Drew.";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-120: Discovery
Oct. 23-Nov. 7, 2007.
Harmony module added to space station. First shuttle-station linkup with two female commanders.
Crew: Melroy, Zamka, Parazynski, Wilson, Wheelock, Nespoli, Tani (up), Anderson (down).";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-122: Atlantis
Feb. 7-20, 2008.
Europe's Columbus lab added to space station.
Crew: Frick, Poindexter, Schlegel, Love, Walheim, Melvin, Eyharts (up), Tani (down).";
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shuttle_missions[i-1].body = "STS-123: Endeavour
Launched March 11.
Giant robot and first piece of Japan's Kibo lab added to space station.
Crew: Gorie, Johnson, Linnehan, Behnken, Foreman, Doi, Reisman (up), Eyharts (down).";
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