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STS-121

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Kelly

In Mark Kelly
…July 2006 on the 13-day STS-121 mission as pilot of the space shuttle Discovery, which carried a German astronaut to the ISS, increasing its crew from two to three. Mark made two subsequent flights to the ISS as mission commander. On the STS-124 mission (May 31–June 14, 2008) of the…
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Wilson

In Stephanie Wilson
Wilson’s first spaceflight was the STS-121 mission of the space shuttle Discovery, which launched on July 4, 2006, to the ISS. STS-121 was the second flight after the Columbia disaster, and thus a key aim of the mission was testing safety procedures that would detect shuttle orbiter damage like that…
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