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* 2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
* 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British surrealist painter ( d. 2011 )
* 1916 – Russell Garcia, American composer ( d. 2011 )
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* 1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )
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* 1941 – Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer ( d. 2011 )
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* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )
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* 1951 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Wax ) ( d. 2011 )
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* 1932 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor ( d. 2011 )
* 1937 – Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player ( d. 2011 )
* 1993 – Ben Breedlove, American blogger ( d. 2011 )
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* 2011 – Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.
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2011 and STS-134
Endeavour first flew in May 1992 on mission STS-49 and its last mission STS-134 was in May 2011.
Endeavour flew its final mission, STS-134, to the International Space Station ( ISS ) in May 2011.
In 2011, STS-134 carried a middle-school designed experiment containing brine shrimp.
He piloted STS-121 in 2006 and commanded STS-124 in 2008 and STS-134 in 2011.
STS-134 launched on May 16, 2011.
On April 29, 2011, the first launch attempt of STS-134 was scrubbed.
After the shooting of his wife, his status as commander of STS-134 was unclear, but NASA announced on February 4, 2011, that Kelly would remain as commander of the mission.
On January 13, 2011, NASA named Sturckow as the backup commander for STS-134.
Due to several delays, including the fallout from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the station was completed in late 2011, thanks to STS-134.
On 25 May 2011, NASA reported that during the second spacewalk of Space Shuttle mission STS-134, astronaut Drew Feustel used a part of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit ( spacesuit ) to make use of " a spongy device called a Valsalva that is typically used to block the nose in case a pressure readjustment is needed.
On May 16, 2011 a plush toy of Krtek was present on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour where it accompanied the U. S. astronaut Andrew Feustel, whose wife is of Czech ancestry, on the STS-134 mission.
The boom was stowed on the ISS S1 Integrated Truss Structure on the fourth spacewalk of STS-134 on May 27, 2011.
2011 and ISS
Catherine Coleman in the ISS, 2011.
With the substantial completion of the ISS following STS-133 in March 2011, plans for space exploration by the USA remain in flux.
The US Space Shuttle flew 135 times from 1981 to 2011, supporting Spacelab, Mir, and ISS.
On January 12, 2011, Space Adventures and the Russian Federal Space Agency announced that orbital space tourism would resume in 2013 with the increase of manned Soyuz launches to the ISS from four to five per year.
With the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet in 2011, future manned missions to the ISS will depend upon the Russian Soyuz spacecraft for the immediate future.
On 17 October 2011, G4S announced it would purchase the Denmark-based facilities management group ISS A / S for £ 5, 200 million.
As of March 2011, Malenchenko ranks tenth for career time in space due to his time on both Mir and the International Space Station ( ISS ).
NASA retired the Space Shuttle fleet on July 21, 2011 after completing the ISS and the final flight and subsequent landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Burbank was assigned to ISS Expedition 29 and Expedition 30 aboard ISS beginning September 2011.
On June 24, 2011, a prerecorded message by Kelly from the ISS, wished his wife love and introduced U2's song " Beautiful Day " on the first night of the Glastonbury festival in England.
* Paolo A. Nespoli, flew on STS-120 ( October 23 to November 7, 2007 ),; he then returned on the ISS for the long duration MagISStra mission ( Expedition 26 / 27, from December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) aboard the Soyuz TMA-20.
However, after the success of the first mission, NASA conditionally agreed on 15 July 2011 that the two flights would be combined, and the next Dragon mission was to have Dragon being berthed with the ISS.
On 18 April 2011, NASA granted SpaceX $ 75 million to develop Dragon's integrated launch escape system in preparation for human-rating it as a crew transport vehicle to the ISS as part of its second-round CCDev Space Act funding.
U. S. President Barack Obama's 2011 budget contains money for extending the ISS and this could allow procuring a new centrifuge for the International Space Station.
The latest Robonaut version, R2, the first US-built robot on the ISS, delivered by STS-133 in Feb 2011, is a robotic torso designed to assist with crew EVA's and can hold tools used by the crew.
Robonaut 2 was launched on STS-133 on February 24, 2011, and delivered to the ISS.
The ISS Group ’ s revenue amounted to DKK 78 billion in 2011 and ISS now has more than 530, 000 employees in over 50 countries across Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America and Pacific, serving thousands of both public and private sector.
As of Feb. 2011, a total of 104 EVAs on the ISS had occurred, for greater than 650 total hours in space.
In 2011 Fossum launched to ISS to become part of the Expedition 28 and Expedition 29 crews, serving as commander of Expedition 29.
The most recent Soyuz-U mission failed to launch Progress M-12M to the ISS on 24 August 2011.
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