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Atlantis Crew Sets Record for Longest Training: 4.5 Years

Posted Aug 19, 2006 at 04:59AM by Alaric S. Listed in: News, Spacecraft Tags: Columbia, International Space Station, Atlantis, Shuttle
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When space shuttle Atlantis launches on August 27, it will carry a crew that has been training for it for the past four and a half years. The six astronauts were supposed to fly to the International Space Station in 2003 but plans were grounded as a result of the Columbia disaster.

"After Columbia, I wondered if the shuttle was going to fly...I was concerned that we might not get to do this," said first-timer Atlantis pilot Chris Ferguson. The crew of the grounded mission, however, continued their training and setting the record for the longest ever in the process.

The Atlantis crew includes:
  • U.S. Navy Capt. Brent Jett, commander. This will be his fourth space trip and will perform tasks that include delivering an addition to the space station and deploying solar wings for the space lab.
  • U.S. Navy Capt. Chris Ferguson, pilot. Along with mission specialist Dan Burbank, Ferguson will operate the shuttle's robotic arm to lift the 35,000-pound addition to the space station. He is also set to be at the controls on Atlantis return trip.
  • Mission specialist Joe Tanner. With his upcoming spacewalk, Tanner will have completed seven spacewalks all in all. He joined NASA as an aerospace engineer and research pilot in 1984 and was selected to be an astronaut in 1992.
  • U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Dan Burbank. He was a mission specialist aboard Atlantis in 2000 for a flight that prepared the ISS for its first full-time inhabitants. He will perform his first spacewalk during the upcoming mission.
  • U.S. Navy Cmdr. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper. When Piper makes her scheduled two spacewalks she will join six other American and one Russian women who have made spacewalks.
  • Mission specialist Steve MacLean of the Canadian Space Agency. MacLean was picked as one of the first six Canadian astronauts in 1983 and flew on his first shuttle mission aboard Columbia in 1992. He will operate the space station's Canadian-built robotic arm and will be the second Canadian to go on a spacewalk.

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