Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on May 16, 2010, 220 miles over the South Pacific Ocean.
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This is an overview of the 12-day mission of the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. The Space Shuttle Atlantis carried the Russian Rassvet Mini-Research Module and an Integrated Cargo Carrier – Vertical Light Deployable pallet to the station.
STS-132 Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on May 14, 2010, from the Kennedy Space Center. The primary payload of the STS-132 mission is the Russian Rassvet Mini-Research Module. The Space Shuttle is also carrying an Integrated Cargo Carrier – Vertical Light Deployable (ICC-VLD). The members of the STS-132 crew are Commander Kenneth Ham, Pilot Dominic A. “Tony” Antonelli, and Mission Specialists Garret Reisman, Michael T. Good, Stephen G. Bowen, and Piers Sellers.
The Launch Abort System designed for the Orion crew vehicle was tested on Thursday, May 6, 2010, at the U.S. Army\’s White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Progress M-05M docked with the Pirs module of the International Space Station on May 1, 2010. The automated docking system used by Progress to dock with the station failed when the spacecraft was 1 km away from the station. Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov used a backup manual system to control the rendezvous and docking of the Progress spacecraft.
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Progress M-05M a.k.a. Progress 37P was launched on April 28, 2010, by a Soyuz-U launch vehicle, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The spacecraft carried fresh food and supplies for the crew of the International Space Station.
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