STS-122
Sign in to saveSTS-122 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), flown by the . STS-122 marked the 24th shuttle mission to the ISS, and the 121st Space Shuttle flight overall.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-122
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-122
- Spaceflight.image
- S122e007873.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Canadarm2 takes Columbus from Atlantis payload bay, ahead of its installation on the ISS
- Spaceflight.insignia
- STS-122 patch.svg
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- ISS assembly
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 202
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 12 days, 18 hours, 21 minutes, 50 seconds
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC 2:45:30pmEDT
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC 9:07:10amEDT
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 15
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 7
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- STS-122crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Left to right - Front row: Frick, Eyharts, Poindexter; Back row: Melvin, Walheim, Love, Schlegel
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
- Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
- February 9, 2008
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 1102910
- Mass
- 93536
- Orbital period
- 91.23
- Image
- STS122 launch.jpg
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- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 2008-02-20
- Commons category
- STS-122
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2008-02-07
- Commons gallery
- STS-122
- orbits completed
- 202
- orbital inclination
- 51.6
- periapsis
- 331
- apoapsis
- 339
- event distance
- 8500000
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Article
32 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Mission payloads
- Outreach
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission background
- Shuttle processing
- Launch preparations
- December 6 (launch attempt 1)
- December 9 (Launch attempt 2)
- ECO sensor troubleshooting and recovery
- Radiator Retract Hose
- Mission timeline
- February 7 (Flight day 1, Launch)
- February 8 (Flight day 2)
- February 9 (Flight day 3)
- February 10 (Flight day 4)
- February 11 (Flight day 5)
- February 12 (Flight day 6)
- February 13 (Flight day 7)
- February 14 (Flight day 8)
- February 15 (Flight day 9)
- February 16 (Flight day 10)
- February 17 (Flight day 11)
- February 18 (Flight day 12)
- February 19 (Flight day 13)
- February 20 (Flight day 14, Landing)
- Extra-vehicular activity
- Wake-up calls
- Media
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-122 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), flown by the . STS-122 marked the 24th shuttle mission to the ISS, and the 121st Space Shuttle flight overall.
The mission was also referred to as ISS-1E by the ISS program. The primary objective of STS-122 was to deliver the European Columbus science laboratory, built by the European Space Agency (ESA), to the station. It also returned Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Daniel M. Tani to Earth. Tani was replaced on Expedition 16 by Léopold Eyharts, a French Flight Engineer representing ESA. After Atlantis landing, the orbiter was prepared for STS-125, the final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope.