Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-116

Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-116

Launch Complex 39B
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-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.

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Space Shuttle Discovery


Serial OV-103

Launch Crew Count 7

Status Retired

Landing Time 2006-12-22T22:32:00+0000


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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


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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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