KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. --  After arriving at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility, the STS-108 and Expedition 4 crews wave to the media who waited for comments from the crew. Standing, left to right, are Mission Specialists Linda A. Godwin and Daniel M. Tani, Pilot Mark E. Kelly, and Commander Dominic L. Gorie; Expedition 4 Commander Yuri Onufrienko and crew members Carl E. Walz and Daniel W. Bursch.  Top priorities for the STS-108 (UF-1) mission of Endeavour are rotation of the International Space Station Expedition Three and Expedition Four crews, bringing water, equipment and supplies to the station in the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello, and completion of spacewalk and robotics tasks. Tani and Godwin will take part in the spacewalk to install thermal blankets over two pieces of equipment at the bases of the Space Station's solar wings. Liftoff is scheduled for 7:41 p.m. EST KSC01pd1712

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- After arriving at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility, the STS-108 and Expedition 4 crews wave to the media who waited for comments from the crew. Standing, left to right, are Mission Specialists Linda A. Godwin and Daniel M. Tani, Pilot Mark E. Kelly, and Commander Dominic L. Gorie; Expedition 4 Commander Yuri Onufrienko and crew members Carl E. Walz and Daniel W. Bursch. Top priorities for the STS-108 (UF-1) mission of Endeavour are rotation of the International Space Station Expedition Three and Expedition Four crews, bringing water, equipment and supplies to the station in the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello, and completion of spacewalk and robotics tasks. Tani and Godwin will take part in the spacewalk to install thermal blankets over two pieces of equipment at the bases of the Space Station's solar wings. Liftoff is scheduled for 7:41 p.m. EST KSC01pd1712

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- After arriving at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility, the STS-108 and Expedition 4 crews wave to the media who waited for comments from the crew. Standing, left to right, are Mission Specialists Linda A. Godwin and Daniel M. Tani, Pilot Mark E. Kelly, and Commander Dominic L. Gorie; Expedition 4 Commander Yuri Onufrienko and crew members Carl E. Walz and Daniel W. Bursch. Top priorities for the STS-108 (UF-1) mission of Endeavour are rotation of the International Space Station Expedition Three and Expedition Four crews, bringing water, equipment and supplies to the station in the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello, and completion of spacewalk and robotics tasks. Tani and Godwin will take part in the spacewalk to install thermal blankets over two pieces of equipment at the bases of the Space Station's solar wings. Liftoff is scheduled for 7:41 p.m. EST

The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.

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