Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-129
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-129
STS-129 (ISS assembly flight ULF3) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Atlantis. STS-129 focused on staging spare components outside the station. The 11-day flight included three spacewalks. The payload bay carried two large ExPRESS Logistics Carriers holding two spare gyroscopes, two nitrogen tank assemblies, two pump modules, an ammonia tank assembly, a spare latching end effector for the station's robotic arm, a spare trailing umbilical system for the Mobile Transporter, and a high-pressure gas tank. STS-129 was the first flight of an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Serial OV-104
Launch Crew Count 6
Status Retired
Landing Time 2009-11-27T14:44:00+0000
Crew
Charles "Scorch" Hobaugh
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1961-11-05
Status Retired
Type Government
Barry E. Wilmore
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1962-12-29
Status Active
Type Government
Leland D. Melvin
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1964-02-15
Status Retired
Type Government
Michael Foreman
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1957-03-29
Status Retired
Type Government
Randolph Bresnik
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1967-09-11
Status Active
Type Government
Robert Satcher
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1965-09-22
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.
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