{"id":634,"date":"2011-07-13T09:45:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=634"},"modified":"2011-07-13T09:45:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:45:58","slug":"space-history-delivering-new-airlock-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/space-history-delivering-new-airlock-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Space History: Delivering a New Airlock to the Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago today — July 13, 2001 — the Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/em> docked with the International Space Station to deliver a new airlock.<\/p>\n

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\n(Mission Specialist James Reilly moving through the newly-installed airlock. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nSTS-104<\/a>, also known as ISS Assembly Mission 7-A<\/a>, had launched on July 12th* carrying astronauts Steven W. Lindsey, Charles O. Hobaugh, Michael L. Gernhardt, James F. Reilly, and Janet L. Kavandi. The crew spent a total of 12 days in space, completing three spacewalks to attach the joint airlock module — so named because it supports both U.S. and Russian spacesuits — to the Unity Node, attach high-pressure gas tanks to the airlock, and complete troubleshooting on the new system. Once in place, the airlock was named “Quest.”<\/p>\n

In other space history, 5 years ago yesterday** Bigelow Aerospace<\/a>‘s inflatable test unit Genesis-1 was launched from Russia’s ISC Kosmotras Space and Missile Complex atop a Dnepr rocket. Their inflatable space structures concept is very compelling, and I hope they’re able to make it work and turn a profit.<\/p>\n

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\n*I usually post these on the launch anniversary. What can I say? I’m a slacker.
\n**I already owned up to my slackitude once, in the previous footnote. What do you want from me?<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago today — July 13, 2001 — the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station to deliver a new airlock. (Mission Specialist James Reilly moving through the newly-installed airlock. NASA image.) STS-104, also known as ISS Assembly Mission 7-A, had launched on July 12th* carrying astronauts \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11,12,22],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-space-history","tag-space-shuttle","tag-space-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}