Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-120
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-120
STS-120 was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on 23 October 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission is also referred to as ISS-10A by the ISS program. STS-120 delivered the Harmony module and reconfigured a portion of the station in preparation for future assembly missions. STS-120 was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and was the twenty-third space shuttle mission to the ISS.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Serial OV-103
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Retired
Landing Time 2007-11-07T18:01:00+0000
Crew
Pamela Melroy
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1961-09-17
Status Retired
Type Government
George D. Zamka
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1962-06-29
Status Retired
Type Government
Daniel M. Tani
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1961-02-01
Status Retired
Type Government
Douglas H. Wheelock
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1960-05-05
Status Active
Type Government
Paolo Nespoli
Mission Specialist
Nationality Italian
Date Of Birth 1957-04-06
Status Retired
Type Government
Scott E. Parazynski
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1961-07-28
Status Retired
Type Government
Stephanie Wilson
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1966-09-27
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.
