SPACE SHUTTLE ORBITER 103 DISCOVERY 41-F
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Williams, Clifton C., 1932-1967
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Clifton C. Williams (b. September 26, 1932, Mobile, AL–d. October 5, 1967, FL), was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, Major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut. He was killed in a plane crash caused by a mechanical failure in a NASA T-38 jet trainer....
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
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The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. It was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson, by an act of the United States Senate on February 19, 1973. It consists of a complex of one hundred buildings constructed on 1,620 acres in the Clear Lake Area of Houston. The center is home to NASA's astron...
Hoffman, Jeffrey A., 1944-
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Jeffrey Hoffman (b. Nov. 2, 1944, Brooklyn, NY) is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an astronaut. He was a member of Discovery (STS-51-D), Columbia (STS-35), Atlantis (STS-46), Endeavor (STS-61), Columbia (STS-75)....
Williams, Clifton C., 1932-1967
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Clifton C. Williams (b. September 26, 1932, Mobile, AL–d. October 5, 1967, FL), was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, Major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut. He was killed in a plane crash caused by a mechanical failure in a NASA T-38 jet trainer....
Discovery (Spacecraft)
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Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, gathering more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date. Discovery became the third operational orbiter to enter service, preceded by Columbia and Challenger. It embarked on its las...
