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[b]STS-120 mission patch[/b] STS-120 is the 23rd shuttle mission to the International Space Station, and will launch an Italian-built U.S. multi-port module for the station. Air Force Col. Pamela Melroy will command the STS-120 mission to take the Node 2 connecting module to the station. Melroy, a veteran shuttle pilot, is the second woman to command a shuttle. Marine Corps Col. George Zamka will serve as pilot. The flight's mission specialists will be Scott Parazynski, Army Col. Douglas Wheelock, Stephanie Wilson and Paolo Nespoli, a European Space Agency astronaut from Italy. Zamka, Wheelock and Nespoli will be making their first spaceflight. Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Clayton Anderson will return to Earth from the space station aboard STS-120. That flight will carry his replacement, Daniel Tani. Tani will return on mission STS-122.
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