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left it through an airlock. Another famous series of missions were the launch and later successful repair of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 and 1993, respectively.
In 1995, Russian-American interaction re- sumed with the Shuttle-Mir missions (1995– 1998).
Once more an American vehicle docked with a Russian craft, this time a full-fledged space station. This cooperation has continued with Russia and the United States as two of the big- gest partners in the largest space station built: the International Space Station. The strength of their cooperation on this project was even more evident when NASA began relying on Russian launch vehicles to service the ISS during the two-year grounding of the shuttle fleet follow- ing the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
The Shuttle fleet lost two orbiters and 14 as- tronauts in two disasters: Challenger in 1986, and Columbia in 2003.
While the 1986 loss was mitigated by build- ing the Space Shuttle Endeavour from replace- ment parts, NASA did not build another orbiter to replace the second loss. NASA’s Space Shut- tle program had 135 missions when the program ended with the successful landing of the Space Shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011. The program spanned 30 years with over 300 astronauts sent into space.
International Space Station (1993–pres- ent)
The International Space Station combines NASA’s Space Station Freedom project with the Soviet/Russian Mir-2 station, the European Columbus station, and the Japanese Kibo labo-
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May 29, 1999: Shuttle docks to ISS — Shuttle docks to ISS for the first time on STS-96. The first element, Zarya, has been launched from Russia on Nov. 20, 1998. STS-88 had joined the Unity node to Zarya on Dec. 6, 1998, officially beginning construction of the ISS.
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