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STS-129's all male crew for this 11 day mission includes two African-American astronauts, Mission Specialists Leland Melvin and Robert Satcher, Jr. It is also Melvin and Satcher's first trips into space.
STS-129 also has experiments on board created by the minds at Texas Southern University, the HBCU in my hometown.
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Atlantis will be returning station crew member Nicole Stott to Earth.
You space junkies like me will only have five more opportunities after today to watch a shuttle launch before they retire the shuttle fleet in 2010.
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