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STS-113 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. During the 14-day mission in late 2002, Endeavour and its crew extended the ISS backbone with the P1 truss and exchanged the Expedition 5 and Expedition 6 crews aboard the station. With Commander Jim Wetherbee and Pilot Paul Lockhart at the controls, Endeavour docked with the station on 25 November 2002 to begin seven days of station assembly, spacewalks and crew and equipment transfers. This was Endeavour’s last flight before entering its Orbiter Major Modification period until 2007, and also the last shuttle mission before the Columbia disaster.
Serial OV-105
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Retired
Landing Time 2002-12-07T19:38:00+0000
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1952-11-27
Status Retired
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1956-04-28
Status Retired
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1955-04-20
Status Active
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1958-09-14
Status Retired
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1956-11-14
Status Retired
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1958-05-30
Status Active
Type Private
Nationality Russian
Date Of Birth 1963-04-29
Status Retired
Type Government
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
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.
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.