Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-131

Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-131

Launch Complex 39A
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-131

STS-131 was an ISS assembly flight with the primary payload being a loaded Multi-Purpose Logistics Module - Leonardo. The mission began on April 5th 2010 at 1021:22 UTC launching Commander Alan Poindexter, Pilot James Dutton, Mission Specialist 1 Richard Mastracchio, Mission Specialist 2 Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, Mission Specialist 3 Stephanie Wilson, Mission Specialist 4 Naoko Yamazaki & Mission Specialist 5 Clayton Anderson to orbit. They docked with the ISS 2 days after launch. The mission was the final Space Shuttle launch with a seven person crew and was the longest flight for Discovery. STS-131 also marked the first time 4 women have been in space at once. During the mission 3 spacewalks were conducted to replace an ammonia tank and to retrieve a seed experiment from outside the Japanese laboratory. The mission concluded after 15 days & 2 hours on April 20th 2010 at 1308:35 UTC after 2 waved off landing opportunities on the 19th at the Kennedy Space Center.

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Space Shuttle Discovery


Serial OV-103

Launch Crew Count 7

Status Retired

Landing Time 2010-04-20T13:08:00+0000


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Crew

Alan G. Poindexter

Commander

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1961-11-05

Deceased 2012-07-01

Status Deceased

Type Government


James Dutton

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1968-11-20

Status Retired

Type Government


Clayton Anderson

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1959-02-23

Status Retired

Type Government


Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1975-05-15

Status Retired

Type Government


Naoko Yamazaki

Mission Specialist

Nationality Japanese

Date Of Birth 1970-12-27

Status Retired

Type Government


Richard Mastracchio

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1960-02-11

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


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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.

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.

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