The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will host a public induction ceremony on May 6.
Columbia was lostHe was then assigned as pilot of STS-121, NASA's second"Return to Flight" mission following the Columbia tragedy. The mission tested new safety and repair techniques, as well as brought supplies and German astronaut Thomas Reiter of theKelly's third launch came in May 2008. As commander of Discovery, Kelly and his STS-124 crewmates installed the Japanese Kibo laboratory, the station's largest habitable module.
STS-134 commander Mark Kelly is surrounded by cargo bags on board the middeck of space shuttle Endeavour while docked with the International Space Station in May 2011. Kelly's last mission was also the final flight of Endeavour and penultimate launch of the shuttle program. Lifting off in May 2011, Kelly and his STS-134 crewmates added theto the exterior of the space station to measure antimatter in cosmic rays. Kelly flew the mission with the permission of his wife, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was recovering from a recent assassination attempt.
Kelly resigned from NASA a few months after flying his last landing, but came back three years later to serve in a study of the genetic and molecular effects of long-duration spaceflight.
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