Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-109

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-109

Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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United Space Alliance

United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

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STS-109

STS-109 (SM3B) was a Space Shuttle mission that launched from the Kennedy Space Center on 1 March 2002. It was the 108th mission of the Space Shuttle program, the 27th flight of the orbiter Columbia and the fourth servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. It was also the last successful mission of the orbiter Columbia before the ill-fated STS-107 mission, which culminated in the Columbia disaster.

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Space Shuttle Columbia


Serial OV-102

Launch Crew Count 7

Status Destroyed

Landing Time 2002-03-12T09:33:00+0000


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Crew

Scott Altman

Commander

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1959-08-15

Status Retired

Type Government


Duane G. Carey

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1957-04-30

Status Retired

Type Government


James H. Newman

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1956-10-16

Status Retired

Type Government


John M. Grunsfeld

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1958-10-10

Status Retired

Type Government


Mike Massimino

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1962-08-19

Status Retired

Type Government


Nancy J. Currie-Gregg

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1958-12-29

Status Retired

Type Government


Richard M. Linnehan

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1957-09-19

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


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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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