STS-134

STS-134

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English: STS-134 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Endeavour. It launched on May 16, 2011 and landed on June 1, 2011. It was the final flight of Endeavour.

NASA galleries for STS-134:

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Crew

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  Official crew portrait
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  Official mission poster
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  Cake-cutting ceremony

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  Mark Kelly, Commander
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  Rick Sturckow, Backup Commander
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  Gregory Johnson, Pilot
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  Michael Fincke
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  Roberto Vittori
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  Andrew Feustel
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  Gregory Chamitoff

Before Launch

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  Crew arrives at Kennedy
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  Endeavour at the Pad
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  Before the first launch attempt
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  Crew meets Michelle and Barack Obama
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  Crew arrival 2nd launch attempt
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  Before second launch attempt
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  Astrovan pre-flight photo
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  The sun rises over the press site

Training

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  Crew bailout training
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  Andrew Feustel
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  Gregory Johnson in the Full Fuselage Trainer
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  Johnson, Fincke and Chamitoff
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  Chamitoff awaits the start of a spacewalk training session
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  Mark Kelly
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  Roberto Vittori
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  Crew Compartment Trainer - Roberto Vittori
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  Mark Kelly's comeback news conference

Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test

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  Crew begins dress rehearsal
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  Mark Kelly in the Shuttle Training Aircraft
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  Mark Kelly performs touch-and-go landings
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  Group photo in front of an M113 vehicle
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  Mark Kelly and Professor Sam Ting at Endeavour's payload bay
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  The crew checks out a slidewire basket
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  Roberto Vittori and Michael Fincke in the White Room
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  Crew portrait on the Launch Pad
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  Mark Kelly and Michael Fincke leave Kennedy

Shuttle Stack

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  Solid rocket booster segment stacking
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  External Tank ET-122 in front of the VAB
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  ET-122 being moved into Vehicle Assembly Building
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  Last external fuel tank commemorative patch
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  SRB right forward assembly
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  Mobile Launcher Platform with two Solid Rocket Boosters
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  MLP with two SRBs and spraying tank truck
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  External Tank ET-122 lowering
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  Ready to Roll
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  Last rollover commemorative photo
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  Endeavour approaches the VAB
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  Endeavour is lowered into place
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  Orbiter Avionics Bays
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  Orbiter Aft Avionics Bays
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  Endeavour's aft avionics bay 5
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  The faulty and uncovered Load Control Assembly-2

Rollout

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Payload

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  STS-134 Payload Overview
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  C-5 aircraft lands at the Shuttle Landing Facility, delivering ELC-3
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  ExPRESS Logistics Carrier 3
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  ELC-3 Layout
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  Top view of the ELC-3
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  Bottom (keel) view of the ELC-3
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  Ammonia Tank Assembly (cover removed)
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  Cargo Transportation Container 2 (CTC-2)
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  High-Pressure Gas Tank (cover removed)
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  S-Band Antenna Support Assembly
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  Space Test Program - Houston 3
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  Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer in the Space Station Processing Facility
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  AMS-02 is moved to a payload canister
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  ExPRESS Logistics Carrier 3
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  ExPRESS Logistics Carrier 3 is moved to a payload canister
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  The Rotating Service Structure is opened
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  Payload canister arrives at Launch Pad
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  Endeavour and payload canister on Launch Pad
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  AMS-02 was moved to Endeavour's payload bay
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  Endeavour's payload bay
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  Payload bay doors are closed

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  Endeavour's launch seen from a shuttle training aircraft
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  External Tank is jettisoned
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In Orbit

Flight Day 2

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  Greg Chamitoff and Mark Kelly on Endeavour's middeck
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  Endeavour's payload bay in space
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  Mike Fincke lifts heavy bags and floats freely inside Endeavour.

Flight Day 3 (Docking)

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  Mark Kelly and Greg H. Johnson on the forward flight deck
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  Mark Kelly, Greg H. Johnson and Roberto Vittori on the flight deck during docking operations
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  ISS seen from Space Shuttle
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  Endeavour approaches the space station
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  ISS seen from Space Shuttle
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  Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver
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  Starboard wing close up
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  Endeavour's payload bay and the partly obscured ISS
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  Endeavour during the Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver
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  Cady Coleman next to a porthole with the Endeavour
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  The hatches are open
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  Crew welcome
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  Endeavour's payload bay seen from the Cupola
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  ELC-3 in the grasp of Endeavour's robotic arm
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  ELC-3 robotic arm hand off
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  Italian astronauts Paolo Nespoli and Roberto Vittori

Flight Day 4

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  AMS-02 in space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay
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  Closeup
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  AMS-02 in the grasp of Endeavour's robotic arm
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  View from the Cupola to space shuttle Endeavour
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  Roberto Vittori floats through the Destiny lab
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  Roberto Vittori and Mark Kelly in a mirror

Flight Day 5 (EVA 1)

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  EVA1 preparing in the Quest airlock
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  The starboard truss with the newly-installed AMS-02
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  Gregory Chamitoff exits the Quest airlock
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  Feustel seen from Chamitoff
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  Andrew Feustel and Gregory Chamitoff
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  Andrew Feustel
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  Andrew Feustel and Gregory Chamitoff
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  Andrew Feustel
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  Andrew Feustel and Gregory Chamitoff
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  Andrew Feustel
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  EVA choreographer Michael Fincke
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  Gregory Chamitoff enters the Quest airlock
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  Gregory H. Johnson
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  Andrew Feustel enters the Quest airlock

Flight Day 6

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  Endeavour's heat shield tile damage
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  The STS-134 and Expedition 27 crews during a special call from Pope Benedict XVI
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  STS-134 and Expedition 27 joint crew portrait
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  Mark Kelly, Roberto Vittori and Greg Chamitoff during a break in the Unity node
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  Mark Kelly attaches a decal of his mission patch in the Unity node

Flight Day 7 (EVA 2)

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  Andrew Feustel and Michael Fincke near the Quest airlock
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  Andrew Feustel
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  Drew Feustel re-enters the Quest airlock

Flight Day 8

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  Mark Kelly in the middeck of Endeavour
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  Paolo Nespoli and Roberto Vittori in the ATV-2 "Johannes Kepler"
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  Soyuz TMA-20 with Kondratyev, Coleman and Nespoli leaves the ISS

Flight Day 9

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  Michael Fincke and Ron Garan behind a rack
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  Michael Fincke and Ron Garan on the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly

Flight Day 10 (EVA 3)

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  Andrew Feustel
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  Andrew Feustel and Michael Fincke
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  EVA3 choreographer Gregory Chamitoff
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  Andrew Feustel and Michael Fincke
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  Michael Fincke
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Flight Day 11

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  Traditional in-flight crew portrait

Flight Day 12 (EVA 4)

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  EVA4 preparations in the Quest airlock
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  Gregory Chamitoff and Michael Fincke
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  Michael Fincke
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  Gregory Chamitoff
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  Fincke and the new Boom Assembly
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  Gregory Chamitoff
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  View to the Space Shuttle Endeavour
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  Michael Fincke
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  The new Boom Assembly photographed by Fincke
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  Gregory Chamitoff
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  View to the Russian Orbital Segment
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  View from above of the Integrated Truss Structure
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  View from the top of ELC-3 across the ISS
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  Ron Garan and Mark Kelly on Endeavour's middeck
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  Greg H. Johnson, Michael Fincke, Aleksandr Samokutyayev and Andrei Borisenko
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  STS-134 and Expedition 28 crew members on the middeck of space shuttle Endeavour
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  View of a starry sky and Earth's horizon from the Kibo lab

Flight Day 13

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  Michael Fincke on Endeavour's middeck
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  Michael Fincke in the Kibo laboratory
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  Endeavour, backdropped by a night time view of Earth and a starry sky

Flight Day 14

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  Gregory H. Johnson on Endeavour's middeck

Flight Day 15 (Undocking)

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  Space Shuttle Endeavour after undocking
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  International Space Station after undocking
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  AMS closeup
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  Crew members during undocking and fly-around operations
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  Mark Kelly during undocking and fly-around operations
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Flight Day 17 (Landing)

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  Crew after landing
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  Last towback
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  Endeavour approaches OPF-1
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  Decommissioning

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Landing Ground Tracks

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  Long-range ground track
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  Mid-range
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  Close-range