Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-124
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-124
STS-124 was a Space Shuttle mission, flown by Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station. Discovery launched on 31 May 2008 at 17:02 EDT, moved from an earlier scheduled launch date of 25 May 2008, and landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, at 11:15 EDT on 14 June 2008.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Serial OV-103
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Retired
Landing Time 2008-06-14T15:15:00+0000
Crew
Mark Kelly
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1964-02-21
Status Retired
Type Government
Kenneth Ham
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1964-12-12
Status Retired
Type Government
Akihiko Hoshide
Mission Specialist
Nationality Japanese
Date Of Birth 1968-12-28
Status Active
Type Government
Gregory Chamitoff
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1962-08-06
Status Retired
Type Government
Karen Nyberg
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1969-10-07
Status Retired
Type Government
Michael E. Fossum
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1957-12-19
Status Retired
Type Government
Ronald J. Garan Jr.
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1961-10-30
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.
