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Aviation-NASA aircrafts-Prototypes (1538 images)
Title : Practicing takeoffs and landings in the Shuttle Training Aircraft in the late
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(10/26/1998) --- Practicing takeoffs and landings in the Shuttle Training Aircraft in the late afternoon sunlight, STS-95 Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. taxis across the Shuttle Landing Facility (at left) while Pilot Steven W. Lindsey waits his turn (at right). The STA is designed to fly like the Shuttle. Brown, Lindsey and the rest of the crew are at KSC for final launch preparations. STS-95 is expected to launch at 2 p.m. EST on Oct. 29, last 8 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes, and land at 11:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 7. Other crew members are Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, Mission Specialist Pedro Duque, with the European Space Agency (ESA), and Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)
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