Long Duration Exposure Facility
NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility, or LDEF (pronounced "eldef"), was a school bus-sized cylindrical facility designed to provide long-term experimental data on the outer space environment and its effects on space systems, materials, operations and selected spores' survival. It was placed in low Earth orbit by Space Shuttle Challenger in April 1984. The original plan called for the LDEF to be retrieved in March 1985, but after a series of delays it was eventually returned to Earth by Columbia in January 1990.
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Long Duration Exposure Facility
NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility, or LDEF (pronounced "eldef"), was a school bus-sized cylindrical facility designed to provide long-term experimental data on the outer space environment and its effects on space systems, materials, operations and selected spores' survival. It was placed in low Earth orbit by Space Shuttle Challenger in April 1984. The original plan called for the LDEF to be retrieved in March 1985, but after a series of delays it was eventually returned to Earth by Columbia in January 1990.
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Die Long Duration Exposure Fac ...... traummüll und Mikrometeoriten.
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Il Long Duration Exposure Faci ...... NASA beneficiano ancora oggi.
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LDEF (Long Duration Exposure F ...... imentación ni posicionamiento.
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Le Long Duration Exposure Faci ...... bite plus de cinq ans et demi.
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Long Duration Exposure Facilit ...... tym czasie Ziemię 32 422 razy.
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NASA's Long Duration Exposure ...... cecraft designers to this day.
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O Long Duration Exposure Facil ...... se somente em janeiro de 1990.
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1990-01-20
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1984-04-06
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Columbia arrives at Kennedy Space Center with LDEF still in its payload bay.
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LDEF is removed from Columbia's payload bay
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LDEF, shortly before deployment, flies on the RMS arm of over Baja California.
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Die Long Duration Exposure Fac ...... stückt lag sie bei 9,7 Tonnen.
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Il Long Duration Exposure Faci ...... l corso della missione STS-32.
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LDEF (Long Duration Exposure F ...... efensa y 8 países extranjeros.
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Le Long Duration Exposure Faci ...... bite plus de cinq ans et demi.
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Long Duration Exposure Facilit ...... tym czasie Ziemię 32 422 razy.
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NASA's Long Duration Exposure ...... h by Columbia in January 1990.
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O Long Duration Exposure Facil ...... se somente em janeiro de 1990.
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