STS-128
Sign in to saveSTS-128 (ISS assembly flight 17A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on August 28, 2009. carried the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo as its primary payload. It was Discovery's 37th flight. Leonardo contained a collection of experiments for studying the physics and chemistry of microgravity. Three spacewalks were carried out during the mission, which removed and replaced a materials processing experiment outside ESA's Columbus module, and returned an empty ammonia tank assembly.
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- STS-128
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- Space Transportation System-128
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- Discovery approaches the ISS with Leonardo in its payload bay
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- ISS assembly
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- NASA
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- 219
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- 13 days, 20 hours, 54 minutes, 55 seconds
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- Kennedy, LC-39A
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- Edwards, Runway22
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- 7
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- STS-128 Crew Photo.jpg
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- Seated (l–r) Ford and Sturckow. Standing (l–r) are Hernández, Olivas, Stott, Fuglesang and Forrester.
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- gee
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- August 29, 2009
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Article
33 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission payload {{anchor|Mission payload}}
- Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) ''Leonardo''
- Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier (LMC)
- TriDAR
- Other science packages
- Mission experiments
- Mission milestones
- Shuttle processing
- Launch attempts
- Mission timeline
- August 28 (Flight Day 1 – Launch)
- August 29 (Flight Day 2 – TPS survey)
- August 30 (Flight Day 3 – Docking)
- August 31 (Flight Day 4 – MPLM berthing)
- September 1 (Flight Day 5 – EVA 1)
- September 2 (Flight Day 6)
- September 3 (Flight Day 7 – EVA 2)
- September 4 (Flight Day 8)
- September 5 (Flight Day 9 – EVA 3)
- September 6 (Flight Day 10 – Off duty)
- September 7 (Flight Day 11 – Hatch closure)
- September 8 (Flight Day 12 – Undocking)
- September 9 (Flight Day 13 – End of mission prep)
- September 10 (Flight Day 14 – Landing postponed)
- September 11 (Flight Day 15 – Landing)
- Spacewalks
- Wake-up calls
- Media
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-128 (ISS assembly flight 17A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on August 28, 2009. carried the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo as its primary payload. It was Discovery's 37th flight. Leonardo contained a collection of experiments for studying the physics and chemistry of microgravity. Three spacewalks were carried out during the mission, which removed and replaced a materials processing experiment outside ESA's Columbus module, and returned an empty ammonia tank assembly.
The mission's first launch attempt was delayed due to weather concerns, including multiple weather violations in NASA's launch rules, beginning over two hours before the scheduled launch. The second launch attempt, scheduled for August 26, 2009, at 01:10:22 EDT, was called off the previous evening due to an anomaly in one of the orbiter's fuel valves. The launch finally took place on August 28, 2009, at 23:59 EDT. Discovery landed on September 11, 2009, at Edwards Air Force Base, which was the last landing of a shuttle to occur at the California site.