Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-116
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-116
STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. Discovery lifted off on 9 December 2006 at 20:47:35 EST. A previous launch attempt on 7 December had been canceled due to cloud cover. It was the first night launch of a space shuttle since STS-113 in November 2002. The mission is also referred to as ISS-12A.1 by the ISS program. The main goals of the mission were delivery and attachment of the International Space Station's P5 truss segment, a major rewiring of the station's power system, and exchange of ISS Expedition 14 personnel.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Serial OV-103
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Retired
Landing Time 2006-12-22T22:32:00+0000
Crew
Mark L. Polansky
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1956-06-02
Status Retired
Type Government
William Oefelein
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1965-03-29
Status Dismissed
Type Government
Christer Fuglesang
Mission Specialist
Nationality Swedish
Date Of Birth 1957-03-18
Status Retired
Type Government
Joan Higginbotham
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1964-08-03
Status Retired
Type Government
Nicholas Patrick
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1964-11-19
Status Retired
Type Government
Robert Curbeam
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1962-03-05
Status Retired
Type Government
Sunita Williams
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1965-09-19
Status Active
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.
