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STS111-S-001 --- The STS-111 patch symbolizes the hardware, people, and partner nations that contribute to the flight. The Space Shuttle rises on the plume of the Astronaut Office symbol, carrying the Canadian Mobile Base System (MBS) for installation while docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission is named UF-2 for ISS Utilization Flight number two. The ISS orbit completes the Astronaut Office symbol and is colored red, white, and blue to represent the flags of the United States, Russia, France, and Costa Rica. The Earth background shows Italy, which contributes the Multi Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) used on this flight to re-supply ISS. The ten stars in the sky represent the ten astronauts and cosmonauts on orbit during the flight, and the star at the top of the patch represents the Johnson Space Center, in the state of Texas, from which the flight is managed. The names of the STS-111 crew border the upper part of the patch, and the Expedition Five (going up) and Expedition Four (coming down) crews? names form the bottom of the patch. The NASA insignia design for Shuttle flights is reserved for use by the astronauts and for other official use as the NASA Administrator may authorize. Public availability has been approved only in the forms of illustrations by the various news media. When and if there is any change in this policy, which is not anticipated, the change will be publicly announced.
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STS110-743-035 (8-19 April 2002) --- Galveston Bay, a shallow, sediment-laden inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, can be seen in this northwest-looking view, photographed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Sediments remain suspended in the bay because it is so shallow, with an average depth of 12 feet (4 meters). The city of Galveston and the entrance to Galveston Bay from the Gulf of Mexico can be seen at the bottom center of the image. The highly reflective areas to the north of the city of Galveston are oil refineries in Texas City. Other light-colored areas (oil refineries) can be seen near the center of the image extending northwestward along the Houston Ship Channel. The city of Houston and its suburbs, with some areas under scattered clouds, are visible in the upper left portion of the image. NASA's Johnson Space Center is near center frame. Lake Houston, where the metropolitan area of Houston receives most of its drinking water, is visible in the upper right portion of the image.
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STS109-714-035 (1-12 March 2002) --- The astronauts on board the Space Shuttle Columbia took this 70mm picture featuring the greater metropolitan Houston, Texas area. The view direction is northwest, with Houston's downtown as the brightest region (center) where major highways converge. Interstate 10 is a fine line extending towards the lower right, around the north side of Galveston Bay, part of which appears in the lower right corner. The interstate also appears as a line cutting through the wooded parts of west Houston (just west of downtown). Bush Intercontinental Airport is the largest light patch on the view north of downtown, and lies next to Highway 59, a thin white line that stretches toward the right side of the picture. Forests of East Texas make the top right corner of the view a dark green.
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STS108-712-077 (14 December 2001) --- A nearly vertical view of the El Paso-Juarez area, as photographed by one of the STS-108 astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, flying some 207 nautical miles (383 kilometers) above Earth on December 14, 2001. Center point coordinates of the area pictured are 29.6 degrees north latitude and 108.1 degrees west longitude. The Rio Grande can be seen meandering through the area, forming the borders for two cities (El Paso and Juarez), two states (Texas and Chihuahua) and two countries (U.S.A. and Mexico).
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STS107-402-012 (16 January ? 1 February 2003) --- Astronaut Laurel B. Clark, STS-107 mission specialist, conducts checks of the Yeast Cell Stress Under Microgravity (YSTRES) experiment in the Biopack glovebox on the middeck of the Space Shuttle Columbia. EDITOR?S NOTE: On February 1, 2003, the seven crewmembers were lost with the Space Shuttle Columbia over North Texas. This picture was on a roll of unprocessed film later recovered by searchers from the debris.
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STS107-400-010 (16 January ? 1 February 2003) --- This view featuring Saudi Arabia, the Red Sea, Egypt, and the Nile River was photographed by an STS-107 crewmember onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. EDITOR?S NOTE: On February 1, 2003, the seven crewmembers were lost with the Space Shuttle Columbia over North Texas. This picture was on a roll of unprocessed film later recovered by searchers from the debris.
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STS107-393-014 (16 January ? 1 February 2003) --- This view featuring the southeastern Mediterranean and Egyptian/Sinai Peninsula/Israel border was photographed by an STS-107 crewmember onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. EDITOR?S NOTE: On February 1, 2003, the seven crewmembers were lost with the Space Shuttle Columbia over North Texas. This picture was on a roll of unprocessed film later recovered by searchers from the debris.
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STS107-301-005 (16 January ? 1 February 2003) --- Astronaut Michael P. Anderson, STS-107 payload commander, reads a procedures checklist while working at the Combustion Module (CM-2) in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module (RDM) aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Visible behind him is a wall of experiment racks housing the Enhanced Orbiter Refrigerator / Freezer (EOR/F), Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM), Bioreactor Demonstration System (BDS-05), Astroculture Growth Chamber (AST-10/1), European Space Agency (ESA) BioBox, Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility (APCF), Commercial ITA Biological Experiments (CIBX-2), and Commercial Protein Crystal Growth (CPCG) facilities. EDITOR?S NOTE: On February 1, 2003, the seven crewmembers were lost with the Space Shuttle Columbia over North Texas. This picture was on a roll of unprocessed film later recovered by searchers from the debris.
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STS107-400-004 (16 January ? 1 February 2003) --- This Earth view featuring the Sinai Peninsula, Red Sea, Egypt, Nile River, and Mediterranean was photographed by an STS-107 crewmember onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. EDITOR?S NOTE: On February 1, 2003, the seven crewmembers were lost with the Space Shuttle Columbia over North Texas. This picture was on a roll of unprocessed film later recovered by searchers from the debris.
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