STS-121
Sign in to saveSTS-121 was a 2006 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by on its 32nd flight. 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 to the ISS. The European segment of the mission was called "Astrolab".
Key facts
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- STS-121
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- Space Transportation System-121
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- STS-121 Sellers Fossum RMS-OBSS.jpg
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- Fossum and Sellers on the end of Discoverys Orbiter Boom Sensor System during the mission's first EVA
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- STS-121 patch.svg
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- ISS logistics
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- NASA
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- 202
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 12 days, 18 hours, 37 minutes, 54 seconds
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- Kennedy, LC-39B
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- UTC
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- Kennedy, SLF Runway 15
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- 7 up6 down
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- STS 121 Crew Portrait.jpg
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- (L-R) Wilson, Fossum, Lindsey, Sellers, Kelly, Reiter, Nowak.
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- gee
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- Geocentric
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Article
34 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew notes
- Shuttle hardware
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission background
- Equipment delivered to the ISS
- Timeline
- July 1 (Launch attempt 1)
- July 2 (Launch attempt 2)
- July 3 (No launch attempt)
- July 4 (Launch and flight day 1)
- July 5 (flight day 2)
- July 6 (flight day 3)
- July 7 (flight day 4)
- July 8 (flight day 5)
- July 9 (flight day 6)
- July 10 (flight day 7)
- July 11 (flight day 8)
- July 12 (flight day 9)
- July 13 (flight day 10)
- July 14 (flight day 11)
- July 15 (flight day 12)
- July 16 (flight day 13)
- July 17 (flight day 14 and landing)
- Additional personnel
- Wake-up calls
- Contingency planning
- STS-300
- Pre-launch concerns
- Mission coverage
- Media
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-121 was a 2006 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by on its 32nd flight. 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 to the ISS. The European segment of the mission was called "Astrolab".
After two weather-related delays, the shuttle successfully launched on Tuesday, July 4, 2006, at 14:37:55 EDT. It was the first and only shuttle launch on the United States' Independence Day. The mission lasted for 13 days before landing at the Kennedy Space Center on July 17, 2006, at 09:14:43 EDT.