Shuttles 2000 / 11

Mission objectives: Demonstrate safe launch into orbit and safe return of the orbiter and crew. Verify the combined performance of the entire shuttle vehicle - orbiter, solid rocket boosters and external tank.

STS-99
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
Crew: Commander Kevin R. Kregel - Pilot Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie - Mission Specialists Janet L. Kavandi, Janice E. Voss, Mamoru Mohri and Gerhard P. J. Thiele
Launch: February 11, 2000, 12:43:40 p.m. EST
Landing: February 22, 2000, 6:22:23 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-101
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: Third International Space Station Flight
Crew: Commander James D. Halsell Jr. - Pilot Scott J. "Doc" Horowitz - Mission Specialists Mary Ellen Weber, Jeffrey N. Williams, James S. Voss, Susan J. Helms and Yury Vladimirovich Usachev
Launch: May 19, 2000, 6:11:10 a.m. EDT
Landing: May 29, 2000, 2:20:19 a.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-106
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: International Space Station Flight 2A.2b
Crew: Commander Terrence W. Wilcutt - Pilot Scott D. Altman - Mission Specialists Daniel C. Burbank, Edward T. Lu, Richard A. Mastracchio, Yuri I. Malenchenko and Boris V. Morokov
Launch: September 8, 2000, 8:45:47 a.m. EDT
Landing: September 20, 2000, 3:58:01 a.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-92
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight 3.3A
Crew: Commander Brian Duffy - Pilot Pamela A. Melroy - Mission Specialists Koichi Wakata, Leroy Chiao, Peter J. K. Wisoff, Michael Lopez-Alegria and William S. McArthur 
Launch: October 11, 2000, 7:17 p.m. EDT
Landing: October 24, 2000, 5 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

STS-97
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight 4A
Crew: Commander Brent Jett - Pilot Michael Bloomfield - Mission Specialists Joseph Tanner, Marc Garneau and Carlos Noriega
Launch: November 30, 2000, 10:06:01 p.m. EST
Landing: December 11, 2000, 6:04:20 p.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-98
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight 5A
Crew: Commander Kenneth Cockrell - Pilot Mark Polansky - Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam, Thomas Jones and Marsha Ivins
Launch: February 7, 2001, 6:13:02 p.m. EST
Landing: February 20, 2001, 3:33 p.m. EST
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

STS-102
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight 5A.1
Crew: Commander James Wetherbee - Pilot James Kelly - Mission Specialists Andrew S. W. Thomas and Paul Richards
Launch: March 08, 2001, 6:42:09 a.m. EST
Landing: March 21, 2001, 2:31 a.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-100
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight 6A
Crew: Commander Kent Rominger - Pilot Jeffrey Ashby - Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John Phillips, Umberto Guidoni and Yuri Lonchakov
Launch: April 19, 2001, 2:40:42 p.m. EDT
Landing: May 1, 2001, 12:10:42 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

STS-104
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight 7A
Crew: Commander Steven Lindsey - Pilot Charles Hobaugh - Mission Specialists Michael Gernhardt, James Reilly and Janet Kavandi
Launch: July 12, 2001, 5:03:59 a.m. EDT
Landing: July 24, 2001, 11:39 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-105
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight 7A.1
Crew: Commander Scott Horowitz - Pilot Rick Sturckow - Mission Specialists Daniel Barry and Patrick Forrester
Launch: August 10, 2001, 5:10:14 p.m. EDT
Landing: August 22, 2001, 2:23 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-108
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight UF-1
Crew: Commander Dominic L. Gorie - Pilot Mark E. Kelly - Mission Specialists Linda M. Godwin, Daniel M. Tani and three Russian cosmonauts; Yuri Onufrienko, Mikhail Tyurin and Vladimir N. Dezhurov
Launch: December 5, 2001, 5:19:28 p.m. EST
Landing: December 17, 2001, 12:55 p.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-109
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Mission: Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission
Crew: Commander Scott D. Altman - Pilot Duane G. Carey - Payload Commander John M. Grunsfeld - Mission Specialists Nancy J. Currie, James H. Newman, Richard M. Linnehan and Michael J. Massimino
Launch: March 1, 2002, 6:22 a.m. EST
Landing: March 12, 2002, 4:33:05 a.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-110
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: International Space Station 8A
Crew: Commander Michael J. Bloomfield - Pilot Stephen N. Frick - Mission Specialists Jerry L. Ross, Steven L. Smith, Ellen Ochoa, Lee M. E. Morin and Rex J. Walheim
Launch: April 8, 2002, 4:44:19 p.m. EDT
Landing: April 19, 2002, 12:28:08 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-111
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: International Space Station UF2
Crew: Commander Kenneth Cockrell - Pilot Paul Lockhart - Mission Specialists Franklin Chang-Diaz and Philippe Perrin
Launch: June 5, 2002, 5:22:49 p.m. EDT
Landing: June 19, 2002, 1:58:45 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base Calif.

STS-112
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: International Space Station 9A
Crew: Commander Jeffrey Ashby - Pilot Pamela Melroy - Mission Specialists David Wolf, Piers Sellers, Sandra Magnus and Fyodor Yurchikhin
Launch: October 7, 2002, 3:45:51.074 p.m. EDT
Landing: October 18, 2002, 11:44:35 a.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-113
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: International Space Station 11A
Crew:  Commander Jim Wetherbee - Pilot Paul Lockhart - Mission Specialists Michael Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington
Launch: November 23, 2002, 7:49:47.079 p.m. EST
Landing: December 7, 2002, 2:37:12 p.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-107
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Mission: Migrogravity Research Mission/SPACEHAB
Crew: Commander Rick Husband - Pilot Willie McCool - Payload Commander Michael Anderson - Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark - Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon
Launch: January 16, 2003, 10:39 a.m. EST
Landing was planned for: February 1, 2003, 9:16 a.m. EST
After a 16-day mission, Columbia and crew were lost during reentry over East Texas at about 9 a.m. EST, 16 minutes prior to the scheduled touchdown at KSC
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-114
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight LF1
Crew: Commander Eileen Collins - Pilot James Kelly - Mission Specialists Charles Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Soichi Noguchi, Stephen Robinson and Andrew Thomas
Launch: July 26, 2005, 10:39:00 a.m. EDT
Landing: Aug. 9, 2005, 5:11:22 a.m. PDT
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

STS-121
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight ULF1.1
Crew: Commander Steven W. Lindsey - Mission Specialist Piers J. Sellers - Pilot Mark E. Kelly, - Mission Specialists Thomas Reiter, Lisa M. Nowak, Stephanie D. Wilson and Michael E. Fossum
Launch: July 4, 2006, 2:37:55 p.m. EDT
Landing: July 17, 2006, 9:15:49 a.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-115
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: International Space Station Assembly Flight 12A
Crew: Commander  Brent W. Jett, Jr. - Pilot Christopher J. Fergusonand - Mission specialists Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph R. (Joe) Tanner, Daniel C. Burbank, and Steven G. MacLean, who represents the Canadian Space Agency
Launch: September 9, 2006, 11:15 a.m. EDT
Landing: September 21, 2006, 6:21 a.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

STS-116
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: Delivers Permanent Power
Crew: Commander Mark Polansky - Pilot William Oefelein - Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam, Joan Higginbotham, Nicholas Patrick and Christer Fuglesang of the European Space Agency, and incoming station - Flight Engineer Sunita Williams.
Launch: December 9, 2006, 8:47 p.m. EDT
Landing: December 22, 2006, 5:32 p.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-117 (21st Space Station Flight)
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: Install a new truss segment, unfurl new solar arrays and fold up an old one
Crew:  Commander Rick Sturckow, (3rd shuttle flight) - Pilot Lee Archambault - Mission Specialist  Jim Reilly, Patrick Forrester, Steven Swanson and John “Danny” Olivas - Flight Engineer Clay Anderson, Expedition 15/16, to ISS, Sunita Williams, Expedition 14/15, return from ISS after record 194 days, 18 hours, 58 minutes in space.
Launch:: June 8, 2007, at 7:38:04 p.m. EDT
Landing:: June 22, 2007, at 3:49:38 p.m. EDT.
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif

STS-118 (22nd Space Station Flight)
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: Continued space station construction by delivering a third starboard truss segment
Crew: Commander Scott Kelly, (2nd shuttle flight) - Charlie Hobaugh - Mission Specialist Dave Williams, Barbara R. Morgan, Rick Mastracchio, Tracy Caldwell, Alvin Drew
Launch: Aug. 8, 2007, at 6:36 p.m. EDT
Landing: Aug. 21, 2007, at 12:32 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-120 (23rd Space Station Flight)
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: Continued the construction of the station with the installation of the Harmony Node 2 module and the relocation of the P6 truss.
Crew: Commander Pam Melroy,  (3rd shuttle flight) - Pilot George Zamka - Mission Specialist Scott Parazynski, Doug Wheelock, Stephanie Wilson, Paolo Nespoli, ESA, Daniel Tani, Clay Anderson, down from ISS
Launch: Oct. 23, 2007, at 11:38 a.m. EDT
Landing: Nov. 7, 2007, at 1:01 p.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-122 (24th Space Station Flight)
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: Delivered and installed the European Space Agency’s Columbus laboratory.
Crew: Commander Steve Frick, (2nd shuttle flight) - Pilot Alan Poindexter, Mission Specialist Rex Walheim, Stanley Love, Leland Melvin, Hans Schlegel, represents European Space Agency, Leopold Eyharts - Flight Engineer Daniel Tani, , down from ISS
Launch: Feb. 7, 2008, at 2:45 p.m. EST
Landing: Feb. 20, 2008, at 9:07 a.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-123
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: Delivered the first segment of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo module, Kibo means "hope" in Japanese, and the Canadian Space Agency's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, called Dextre.
Crew: Commander Dominic Gorie - Pilot Gregory H. Johnson - Mission Specialists Robert L. Behnken, Mike Foreman and Garrett Reisman, Takao Doi and Rick Linnehan
Launch: March 11, 2008 2:28 a.m. EDT
Landing: March 26, 2008 8:39 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-124
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: Launch components to complete the Kibo laboratory.
Crew: Commander Mark Kelly - Pilot Ken Ham - Mission Specialists Karen Nyberg, Garrett Reisman, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, NASA astronauts Ron Garan and Mike Fossum - Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff, Expedition 17.
Launch: May 31, 2008 5:02 p.m. EDT
Landing: June 14, 2008 11:15 a.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-126 (124th space shuttle flight)
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: Delivered equipment to the International Space Station that will enable larger crews to reside aboard the complex.
Crew: Commander Christopher J. Ferguson - Pilot Eric A. Boe - Mission Specialists.Sandra H. Magnus, Stephen G. Bowen, Donald R. Pettit, Robert S. (Shane) Kimbrough and Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper
Launch: Nov. 14, 2008 7:55 p.m. EST
Landing: Nov. 30, 2008 4:25 p.m. EST
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

STS-119 (125th space shuttle flight)
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: Deliver to the station the final set of solar arrays needed to complete the station's complement of electricity-generating solar panels.
Crew: Commander Lee Archambault - Pilot Tony Antonelli - Mission Specialists Joseph Acaba, John Phillips, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata
Launch: March 15, 2009 7:43 p.m. EDT
Landing: March 28, 2009 3:14 p.m. EDT
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-125 (126th space shuttle flight)
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: Repaired and upgraded the Hubble Space Telescope, conducting five spacewalks during their mission to extend the life of the orbiting observatory. They successfully installed two new instruments and
repaired two others, bringing them back to life, replaced gyroscopes and batteries, and added new thermal insulation panels to protect the orbiting observatory.
Crew: Commander Scott D. Altman - Pilot Gregory C. Johnson - Mission Specialists Michael J. Massimino, Michael T. Good, K. Megan McArthur, John M. Grunsfeld and Andrew J. Feustel
Launch: 2:01 p.m. EDT – May 11, 2009
Landing:11:39 a.m. EDT – May 24, 2009
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

STS-127 (127th space shuttle flight)
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: Delivered Timothy L. Kopra to the station as a flight engineer and science officer and returned Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata to Earth.
Crew: Commander Mark Polansky - Pilot Doug Hurley - Mission Specialists Dave Wolf, Christopher Cassidy, Canadian Space Agency's Julie Payette, Tom Marshburn and Tim Kopra
Launch: 6:03 p.m. EDT - July 15, 2009
Landing:10:48 a.m. EDT - July 31, 2009
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-128 (128th space shuttle flight) 
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: Carried the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module containing life support racks and science racks. The Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier was also launched in Discovery's payload bay.
Crew: Commander Rick Sturckow - Pilot Kevin Ford - Mission Specialists José Hernández, John "Danny" Olivas, Nicole Stott, European Space Agency's Christer Fuglesang and Patrick Forrester - Flight Engineer Stott is scheduled to join Expedition 20.
Launch: 11:59 p.m. EDT - Aug. 28, 2009 
Landing: 8:53 p.m. EDT - Sept. 11, 2009 
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

STS-129 (129th space shuttle flight) 
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: Returned station crew member Nicole Stott to Earth. STS-129 was the final space shuttle crew rotation flight to or from the space station. Atlantis delivered parts to the space station, including a spare gyroscope.
Crew: Commander Charles Hobaugh - Mission Specialists Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Robert Satcher Jr. and Randy Bresnik, Nicole Stott - Pilot Barry Wilmore
Launch: 2:28 p.m. EST - Nov. 16, 2009
Landing: 9:44 a.m. EST - Nov. 27, 2009
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-130 (130th space shuttle flight)
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: Delivered a third connecting module - the Tranquility node - to the station and a seven windowed cupola to be used as a control room for robotics.
Crew: Commander George Zamka - Pilot Terry Virts - Mission Specialist Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Kathryn Hire and Stephen Robinson
Launch: 4:14 a.m. EST - Feb. 8, 2010
Landing:10:20 p.m. EST - Feb. 21, 2010
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-131 (131st space shuttle flight)
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: Delivered a multi-purpose logistics module filled with science racks that were transferred to laboratories on the International Space Station.
Crew: Commander Alan Poindexter - Pilot James P. Dutton Jr. - Mission Specialists Dorothy Metcalf Lindenburger, Rick Mastracchio, Naoko Yamazaki, Clayton Anderson and Stephanie Wilson
Launch: 6:21 a.m. EDT - April 5, 2010
Landing: 9:08 a.m. EDT - April 20, 2010
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-132 (132nd space shuttle flight)
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: Deliver an Integrated Cargo Carrier and a Russian-built Mini Research Module to the International Space Station.
Crew: Commander Ken Ham - Pilot Tony Antonelli - Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, Michael Good, Piers Sellers and Steve Bowen
Launch: 2:20 p.m. EDT - May 14, 2010
Landing: 8:48 a.m. EDT - May 26, 2010
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-133 (133rd space shuttle flight)
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Mission: Delivered a new module and an external stowage platform to the International Space Station as well as equipment and supplies.
Crew: Commander Steve Lindsey - Pilot Eric BoeMission - Specialists Alvin Drew, Nicole Stott, Steve Bowen and Michael Barratt, 
Launch: 4:53:24 p.m. EST - Feb. 24, 2011
Landing: 11:57:17 a.m. EST - March 9, 2011
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS-134 (134th space shuttle flight)
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Mission: Delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre.
Crew: Commander Mark Kelly - Pilot Gregory H. Johnson - Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency’s Roberto Vittori
Launch: 8:56 a.m. EDT - May 16, 2011
Landing: 2:34 a.m. EDT - June 1, 2011
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

STS 135 (135th space shuttle flight and FINAL flight)
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Mission: Atlantis carried the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module to deliver supplies, logistics and spare parts to the International Space Station. The mission also flew a system to investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing spacecraft and returned a failed ammonia pump module to help NASA better understand the failure mechanism and improve pump designs for future systems.
Crew: Commander Chris Ferguson - Pilot Doug Hurley - Mission Specialists Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus
Launch: 11:29 a.m. EDT - July 8, 2011
Landing: 5:57 a.m. EDT - July 21, 2011
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida


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