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A European for STS-134
The Italian astronaut from the European Space Agency, Roberto Vittori, gives a “thumbs up” to the photographer who took this picture during a training session at the Johnson Center in Houston. Roberto Vittori is a member of the crew for space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission, originally scheduled for July 2010 and now pushed back until November of the same year. As a result, this flight becomes the last one for NASA’s space planes.
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