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'''STS-80''' ('''S'''pace '''T'''ransportation '''S'''ystem) was a [[Space Shuttle program]] mission implemented by [[NASA]]. The mission was the longest Shuttle mission to date, at 17 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes, and 18 seconds.

| Name = Mark Selby

| Nickname = The Jester from Leicester<br>'Marvellous' Mark Selby

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| Born = [[19 June]], [[1983]]

| Birthplace = [[Leicester]](Peebles Way Locobie)

| Nationality = {{flagicon|England}} [[England|English]]

| Professional = 1999&ndash;

| High ranking = #11

| Current rank = #11[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/6634669.stm]

| Prize money = [[Pound sterling|£]]237,570<ref name=wsprofile>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/players_head_to_head-9021.htm |title=Snooker Player Profile - Mark Selby |accessmonthday=May 6 |accessyear=2007 |publisher=World Snooker}}</ref>

(up to start of 2006/07 season)

| High break = 139 (2006 [[Grand Prix (snooker)|Grand Prix]])

| Best finish = Runner-up: [[World Snooker Championship 2007|2007 World Championship]];<br> 2003 [[Players Championship (snooker)|Regal Scottish]]

| Ranking wins =

| Other wins =

| World champ = }}

'''Mark Selby''' (born [[19 June]], [[1983]]) is a professional [[snooker]] and [[pocket billiards|pool]] player from [[Leicester]], [[England]]. Runner up in the [[World Snooker Championship 2007]], he was the 2006 [[World Eight-ball Pool Federation|WEPF]] [[List of World Eight-ball Champions|World Eight-ball Champion]].

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Selby has qualified for the final stages of the [[World Snooker Championship]] on three consecutive occasions (2005-7), reaching the last 16 in [[World Snooker Championship 2006|2006]] and was the runner-up in the 2007 tournament.<ref name=bbc1>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/6633177.stm |title=Higgins beats brave Selby in epic |accessmonthday=May 8 |accessyear=2007|publisher=BBC Sport, 8 May 2007}}</ref> He has played [[John Higgins]] in each of his three World Championships - losing to him in the first round in [[World Snooker Championship 2005|2005]], beating him at the same stage in 2006, and in his 2007 defeat in the final.

| mission_name = STS-80

| insignia = STS-80_patch.jpg

| shuttle = Columbia

| launch_pad = 39-B

| launch = [[November 19]], [[1996]], 2:55:47 p.m EST

| landing = [[December 7]], [[1996]], 6:49:05 a.m. EST, [[Kennedy Space Center|KSC]]

| duration = 17 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes, 18 seconds.

| altitude = 218 statute miles (351 km)

| inclination = 28.45 degrees

| distance = Over 7 million statute miles (11 million km)

| crew_photo = STS-80_crew.jpg

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| previous = [[STS-79]]

| next = [[STS-81]]

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==Crew==

==2007 World Snooker Championship==

* [[Kenneth D. Cockrell]] (3), Mission Commander

In 2007, he beat [[Stephen Lee]] 10-7 in the first round, having won 8 successive frames from being 5-0 behind,<ref name=bbc3>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/6590115.stm |title=Selby completes amazing comeback |accessmonthday=May 6 |accessyear=2007|publisher=BBC Sport, 25 April 2007}}</ref> and followed this up with a 13-8 defeat of former World Champion [[Peter Ebdon]], with five centuries (including three in a row) to reach the quarter-finals.<ref name=bbc2>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/6605633.stm |title=Sizzling Selby knocks out Ebdon |accessmonthday=May 6 |accessyear=2007|publisher=BBC Sport, 30 April 2007}}</ref> In the quarter-final, he beat [[Allister Carter]] 13-12, having led 11-8 and trailed 11-12, in a match that lasted well over nine hours in total.<ref name=bbc4>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/6612799.stm |title=Selby finally shakes off Carter |accessmonthday=May 6 |accessyear=2007|publisher=BBC Sport, 2 May 2007}}</ref> He went on to the finals by beating [[Shaun Murphy (snooker player)|Shaun Murphy]] in another deciding frame by winning 17-16, from 14-16 down, thanks to a 64 break in the decider.<ref name=bbc5>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/6621799.stm |title=Selby pips Murphy to world final |accessmonthday=May 6 |accessyear=2007|publisher=BBC Sport, 5 May 2007}}</ref> These performances have earned him a place in the Top 16 for 2007/2008, where he will be no lower than 11th. Against John Higgins in the final, Selby trailed 4-12 after the Sunday sessions, but he won all six frames of the third session on Monday afternoon to go into the final session only 10-12 down. Selby closed to within one frame at 13-14, but eventually succumbed 13-18.<ref name=bbc1 /> His performances earned him £110,000 (almost half of his pre-tournament all-time earnings) as well as the respect of many of his peers, leading many pundits to note that he had made one of the most drastic improvements in memory. John Higgins also made this point during his victory speech.

* [[Kent V. Rominger]] (2), Pilot

* [[Tamara E. Jernigan]] (4), Mission Specialist

* [[Thomas D. Jones]] (3), Mission Specialist

* [[F. Story Musgrave]] (6), Mission Specialist

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*'''[[Mass]]:''' 13,006 kg payload

Before the start of the 2006/2007 season, Selby had earned £237,570 of prize money in professional snooker.<ref name=wsprofile>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldsnooker.com/players_head_to_head-9021.htm |title=Snooker Player Profile - Mark Selby |accessmonthday=May 6 |accessyear=2007 |publisher=World Snooker}}</ref>

*'''[[Perigee]]:''' 318 km

*'''[[Apogee]]:''' 375 km

*'''[[Inclination]]:''' 28.5°

*'''[[Orbital period|Period]]:''' 91.5 min

==Mission highlights==

His best ranking snooker performance prior to this season came in the [[Players Championship (snooker)|Regal Scottish]] in 2003, where he finished runner-up to [[David Gray (snooker player)|David Gray]], losing 9-7 in the final. His best ranking tournament break is 139, which he produced in the [[Grand Prix 2006 (snooker)|2006 Grand Prix]].

STS-80 marks the third flight of the WSF that flew on [[STS-60]] and [[STS-69]] and the third flight to use the [[Germany|German]]-built Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrograph-Shuttle Pallet Satellite II (ORFEUS-SPAS II). The ASTRO-SPAS program is a cooperative endeavor between [[NASA]] and the [[German Space Agency]], DARA. Both satellites will be deployed and retrieved during the mission. STS-80 is the seventh and last [[Space Shuttle]] mission of [[1996]], the 21st flight of the orbiter ''Columbia'' and the 80th flight overall in NASA's Space Shuttle program. ''Columbia'' last flew on mission [[STS-78]] in the summer of this year.

Other experiments on STS-80 are the Space Experiment Module (SEM), The National Institutes of Health NIH-R4 Experiment, a series of bone cell experiments known as CCM-A (formerly called STL/NIH-C-6), the Biological Research in Canister (BRIC-09) Experiment, the Commercial MDA ITA Experiment (CMIX-5), the Visualization in an Experimental Water Capillary pumped Loop (VIEW-CPL) Experiment.

In 2006, he won the [[World Eight-ball Pool Federation|WEPF]] [[List of World Eight-ball Champions|World Eight-ball Championship]], beating [[Darren Appleton]] 11-7 in the final at [[Blackpool]].<ref name=uk8ball1>{{cite web |url=http://www.uk8ball.com/article.php?sid=2469 |title=Selby pockets world rules pool crown |accessmonthday=May 6 |accessyear=2007 |publisher=UK 8 Ball Pool Community, [[June 17]], [[2006]]}}</ref> He plays for [[Leicestershire County Pool Association]] and is managed by former professional player [[Mukesh Parmar]] and plays at Club 147 in Leicester.

ORFEUS-SPAS II, a free-flying satellite, will be deployed and retrieved using the Space Shuttle Columbia's Remote Manipulator System (RMS). The goal of this astrophysics mission is to investigate the rarely explored far- and extreme-ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and study the very hot and very cold matter in the universe.

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ORFEUS-SPAS II will be attempting a large number of observing programs. Among the many areas in which scientists hope to gain new insights during this mission are the evolution of stars, the structure of galaxies, and the nature of the interstellar medium, and others. Many of the objects they are planning to look at have never before been observed in the far-ultraviolet.

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ASTRO-SPAS is a carrier designed for launch, deployment and retrieval by the Space Shuttle. Once deployed from the Shuttle's RMS, ASTRO-SPAS will operate quasi-autonomously for 14 days in the vicinity of the Shuttle. The carrier's inclination will be 28.4 degrees with an altitude of 218 statute miles (351 km). After completion of the free flight phase, the satellite will be retrieved by the RMS, returned to the Shuttle cargo bay and returned to Earth.

* [http://www.worldsnooker.com/players_head_to_head-9021.htm Mark Selby profile] at World Snooker

[[Image:ORFEUS-SPAS-2.jpg|thumb|200px|left|ORFEUS-SPAS-2 photographed during approach by the [[Space Shuttle Columbia|''Columbia'']] for retrieval]]

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The one-meter diameter ORFEUS-Telescope with the Far Ultraviolet (FUV) Spectrograph and the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Spectrograph comprises the main payload. A secondary, but highly complementary, payload is the Interstellar Medium Absorption Profile Spectrograph (IMAPS). In addition to the astronomy payloads, ORFEUS-SPAS II carries the Surface Effects Sample Monitor (SESAM), the ATV Rendezvous Pre-Development Project (ARP), and the Student Experiment on ASTRO-SPAS (SEAS).

The free-flying [[Wake Shield Facility]] (WSF-3) will be making its third flight into orbit. The Facility is a 12 foot (3.7 m) diameter, free-flying stainless steel disk designed to generate an "ultra-vacuum" environment in space in which to grow semiconductor thin films for use in advanced electronics. The STS-80 astronaut crew will deploy and retrieve the WSF during the 16 day mission using Columbia's "robot arm," or Remote Manipulator System. Wake Shield is sponsored by the Space Processing Division in NASA's Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications. Wake Shield was designed, built and is operated by the [[Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center]] at the [[University of Houston]]--a NASA Commercial Space Center--in conjunction with its industrial partner, Space Industries, Inc., also in Houston.

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[[Wake Shield]] has flown twice before. The first flight on [[STS-60]], in [[1994]], although experiencing a hardware problem that resulted in the vehicle remaining attached to the robot arm, proved the vacuum wake concept, and realized the space epitaxy concept by growing the first-ever crystalline semiconductor thin films in the vacuum of space.

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Astronauts [[Tammy Jernigan]] and [[Tom Jones]] will perform two six- hour spacewalks during STS-80, one on Flight Day 10 and another on Day 12, to evaluate equipment and procedures that will be used during construction and maintenance of the [[International Space Station]].

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The spacewalks are the fifth in a continuing series of Extravehicular Activities (EVAs) called the EVA Development Flight Tests (EDFT). This flight test series of spacewalks is designed to evaluate equipment and procedures planned for the station and to build spacewalking experience in preparation for assembly of the station. Jernigan is designated Extravehicular Crewmember 1 (EV- 1) and will be distinguished by red bands worn on the legs of her spacesuit. Jones is designated EV-2. Astronaut Story Musgrave will serve as the Intravehicular (IV) crewmember, assisting Jernigan and Jones from inside Columbia's crew cabin. STS-80 Pilot [[Kent Rominger]] also will assist with the spacewalks, controlling the robotic arm from inside the cabin.

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The astronauts also will evaluate a variety of work aids and tools designed for use during station operations, including a Body Restraint Tether (BRT), a type of "third hand" stabilizing bar for spacewalkers; a Multi-Use Tether (MUT), a type of stabilizing tether similar to the BRT that can be anchored to either round U.S. handrails or square Russian handrails; and a power tool designed for the station.

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Space Experiment Module (SEM) is a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Shuttle Small Payloads Project education initiative that provides increased educational access to space. The program targets kindergarten through university level participants. SEM stimulates and encourages direct student participation in the creation, development, and flight of zero-gravity and microgravity experiments on the Space Shuttle.

The SEM system provides reusable modules for experiments within a 5 cubic foot (142 L) [[Getaway Special]] Canister. The system uses a Goddard-provided internal support structure, battery, power distribution system, data sampling and storage device and harness. Experiments may be active (requiring power to run mechanisms) or passive (having no mechanisms or requiring no power). Customized data sampling schemes are programmed before flight for each experiment, and data reduction and processing are completed after flight.

==See also==

* [[Space science]]

* [[Space shuttle]]

* [[List of space shuttle missions]]

* [[List of human spaceflights chronologically]]

==External links==

* [http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-80/mission-sts-80.html NASA mission summary]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0jpUPLqLhA Video of NASA STS-80 mission]

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