Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-121

Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-121

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-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.

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Space Shuttle Discovery


Serial OV-103

Launch Crew Count 7

Status Retired

Landing Time 2006-07-17T13:14:00+0000


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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


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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.

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