Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-121
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-121
STS-121 was a 2006 NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. The main purposes of the mission were to test new safety and repair techniques introduced following the Columbia disaster of February 2003 as well as to deliver supplies, equipment and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Reiter from Germany to the ISS.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Serial OV-103
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Retired
Landing Time 2006-07-17T13:14:00+0000
Crew
Steven Lindsey
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1960-08-24
Status Retired
Type Government
Mark Kelly
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1964-02-21
Status Retired
Type Government
Lisa Nowak
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1963-05-10
Status Dismissed
Type Government
Michael E. Fossum
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1957-12-19
Status Retired
Type Government
Piers Sellers
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1955-04-11
Deceased 2016-12-23
Status Died While In Active Service
Type Government
Stephanie Wilson
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1966-09-27
Status Active
Type Government
Thomas Reiter
Mission Specialist
Nationality German
Date Of Birth 1958-05-23
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.
