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Final Shuttle Crew Excited About Mission

2,573 views · Published 26 July 2011 · 49:35 · Indexed 28 September 2026

Channel: NASA · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Commander Chris Ferguson; Pilot Doug Hurley; and mission specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim meet with reporters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in their final public appearance before their launch aboard space shuttle Atlantis now scheduled for July 8 at 11:26 a.m. EDT. will deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module filled with supplies and spare parts to sustain station operations once the shuttles are retired. The mission also will fly the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM), an experiment designed to demonstrate and test the tools, technologies and techniques needed to robotically refuel satellites in space, even satellites not designed to be serviced. The crew also will return an ammonia pump that recently failed on the station. This is the final flight for shuttle Atlantis and the Space Shuttle Program. NASA's workhorses for the past 30 years have completed their mission to build and supply the orbiting outpost, and the agency is now looking to destinations beyond low-Earth orbit.

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