'The Clock Was Ticking': 15 Years Since STS-111’s Repairmen Visited the Space Station (Part 2)

By Ben Evans, on May 28th, 2017

Endeavour is pictured docked to the space station’s U.S. Destiny lab, with the S-0 truss visible at far right. Also visible are the shuttle’s Remote Manipulator System (RMS) mechanical arm at center and a portion of Canadarm2 at bottom-left. Photo Credit: NASA

Over the past five decades, more than 500 people have voyaged […]

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'We Had a Bet...and I Lost': 15 Years Since STS-111's Repairmen Visited the Space Station (Part 1)

By Ben Evans, on May 27th, 2017

Although he had six previous shuttle missions to his credit, Franklin Chang-Diaz had yet to make a spacewalk. On STS-111, he made three. Photo Credit: NASA

Fifteen years ago, next week, the second human to launch from Earth as many as seven times began what would be his final space mission. Costa Rica-born […]

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