STS-114

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STS-114 was NASA’s 2005 Space Shuttle Discovery “Return to Flight” mission that marked the resumption of shuttle operations after the Columbia disaster, focusing on testing new safety procedures and resupplying the International Space Station.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf NASA spaceflight
Space Shuttle mission
apsis geocentric
cargo Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
supplies and equipment for ISS Expedition crew
commander Eileen Collins
crewMember Andrew Thomas
Charles Camarda
Eileen Collins
James Kelly
Soichi Noguchi
Stephen Robinson
Wendy Lawrence
crewSize 7
dockedTo International Space Station program
surface form: International Space Station
dockingPort PM A of the ISS (Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 on Destiny)
evaPerformed 3
evaPurpose ISS maintenance and external experiments installation
test and demonstration of repair techniques for shuttle thermal protection system
followedBy STS-121
internationalCrewMember Soichi Noguchi
internationalPartnerAgency Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
surface form: JAXA
landingDate 2005-08-09
landingRunway Runway 22
landingSite Edwards Air Force Base
launchDate 2005-07-26
launchSite Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
launchVehicle Space Shuttle Discovery
missionDuration 13 days 21 hours 32 minutes
missionSpecialist Andrew Thomas
Charles Camarda
Soichi Noguchi
Stephen Robinson
Wendy Lawrence
missionType International Space Station logistics mission
Return to Flight mission
notableEvent first Space Shuttle mission after the loss of Columbia (STS-107)
first in-flight repair of Space Shuttle thermal protection system tiles
removal of protruding gap fillers from Discovery’s underside
operator NASA
orbitInclination 51.6 degrees
orbitPeriod about 91 minutes
orbitsCompleted 219
pilot James Kelly
precededBy STS-107
primaryObjective Return to Flight after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
deliver supplies and equipment to the ISS
resupply the International Space Station
test new safety and inspection procedures for the Space Shuttle
program NASA Space Shuttle program
surface form: Space Shuttle program
safetyEnhancement modified external tank foam application and design changes
new ascent imagery and tracking procedures
use of Orbiter Boom Sensor System for detailed thermal protection system inspection
secondaryObjective demonstrate on-orbit repair techniques for the shuttle thermal protection system
evaluate new external tank design changes
spacecraft OV-103
Space Shuttle Discovery
visitedDestination International Space Station program
surface form: International Space Station

low Earth orbit
surface form: Low Earth orbit

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: STS-114
Description of subject: STS-114 was NASA’s 2005 Space Shuttle Discovery “Return to Flight” mission that marked the resumption of shuttle operations after the Columbia disaster, focusing on testing new safety procedures and resupplying the International Space Station.

Referenced by (21)

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Columbia Accident Investigation Board followedBy STS-114
this entity surface form: Space Shuttle return-to-flight mission STS-114
OV-103 notableMission STS-114
Wendy Lawrence spaceMission STS-114
Eileen Collins spaceMission STS-114
Andrew Thomas participatedIn STS-114
this entity surface form: Space Shuttle mission STS-114
Stephen Robinson notableWork STS-114
this entity surface form: Return to Flight mission STS-114 after the Columbia disaster
Discovery notableMission STS-114
subject surface form: Space Shuttle Discovery
James Kelly spaceMission STS-114
Charles Camarda notableWork STS-114
this entity surface form: STS-114 Return to Flight mission
Soichi Noguchi spaceMission STS-114
Space Shuttle Columbia crew followedBy STS-114
this entity surface form: STS-114 crew