Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-115
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-115
STS-115 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the first assembly mission to the ISS after the Columbia disaster, following the two successful Return to Flight missions, STS-114 and STS-121. STS-115 launched from Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center on 9 September 2006 at 11:14:55 EDT (15:14:55 UTC). The mission is also referred to as ISS-12A by the ISS program. The mission delivered the second port-side truss segment (ITS P3/P4), a pair of solar arrays (2A and 4A), and batteries. A total of three spacewalks were performed, during which the crew connected the systems on the installed trusses, prepared them for deployment, and did other maintenance work on the station.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Serial OV-104
Launch Crew Count 6
Status Retired
Landing Time 2006-09-21T10:21:00+0000
Crew
Brent W. Jett Jr.
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1958-10-05
Status Retired
Type Government
Christopher Ferguson
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1961-09-01
Status Active
Type Commercial
Daniel C. Burbank
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1961-07-27
Status Retired
Type Government
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1963-02-07
Status Retired
Type Government
Joseph R. Tanner
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1950-01-21
Status Retired
Type Government
Steve MacLean
Mission Specialist
Nationality Canadian
Date Of Birth 1954-12-14
Status Retired
Type Government
Space Shuttle
Height 56.10 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 28200 kN
Diameter 8.00 Meters
Mass To LEO 27500 kg
Liftoff Mass 2030 Tonnes
Launch Success 133
Consecutive Success 22
Maiden Flight 1981-04-12
Launch Failures 2
Programs
International Space Station
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.
Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
