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| Keywords: KSC-99PP-1512 DVIDS754479.jpg en STS-103 Payload Commander Steven L Smith and his wife Peggy smile for the camera on the runway at Patrick Air Force Base The STS-103 crew and their families are preparing to board an airplane that will return them to their home base at the Johnson Space Center in Houston following the successful completion of their mission Discovery landed in darkness the previous evening Dec 27 on runway 33 at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility at 7 00 47 p m EST This was the first time that a Shuttle crew spent the Christmas holiday in space The other STS-103 crew members are Commander Curtis L Brown Jr ; Pilot Scott J Kelly; and Mission Specialists C Michael Foale Ph D John M Grunsfeld Ph D Claude Nicollier of Switzerland and Jean-Fran¯_ois Clervoy of France The STS-103 mission supplied the Hubble Space Telescope with six new gyroscopes six new voltage/temperature improvement kits a new onboard computer a new solid state recorder and new data transmitter and a new fine guidance sensor along with new insulation on parts of the orbiting telescope This was the 96th flight in the Space Shuttle program and the 27th for the orbiter Discovery NASA Identifier KSC-KSC-99PP-1512 2009-10-01 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/754479 754479 2012-10-19 16 29 WASHINGTON DC US PD-USGov Patrick Air Force Base Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ | ||||
