STS-129
Sign in to saveSTS-129 (ISS assembly flight ULF3) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Atlantis was launched on November 16, 2009, at 14:28 EST, and landed at 09:44 EST on November 27, 2009, on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. It was also the last Shuttle mission of the first decade of the 2000s.
Key facts
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- STS-129
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- Space Transportation System-129
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- STS-129 EVA2 Michael Foreman & Randolph Bresnik 1.jpg
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- Bresnik (left) and Foreman (center) working on Columbus exterior during the mission's second EVA
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- ISS logistics
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- NASA
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- 171
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- 10days, 19hours, 16minutes, 13seconds
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- Kennedy, LC-39A
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- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
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- 6 up7 down
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- STS-129 Crewphoto.jpg
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- Front row (l–r) are Hobaugh and Wilmore. Back row (l–r) are Melvin, Foreman, Satcher and Bresnik.
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Article
32 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission payload
- ExPRESS Logistics Carriers 1 and 2
- Materials on International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) carrier
- S-band Antenna Sub-Assembly (SASA) package
- SpaceX COTS UHF Communication Unit and Crew Command Panel
- Other items
- Mission experiments
- Mission background and milestones
- Launch window
- Shuttle processing
- Launch preparations
- Mission timeline
- November 16 (Flight Day 1 – Launch)
- November 17 (Flight Day 2 – TPS survey)
- November 18 (Flight Day 3 – Docking)
- November 19 (Flight Day 4 – EVA 1)
- November 20 (Flight Day 5 – Internal transfers)
- November 21 (Flight Day 6 – EVA 2)
- November 22 (Flight Day 7 – Off duty)
- November 23 (Flight Day 8 – EVA 3)
- November 24 (Flight Day 9 – Hatch closure)
- November 25 (Flight Day 10 – Undocking)
- November 26 (Flight Day 11 – End of mission preparation)
- November 27 (Flight Day 12 – Re-entry and landing)
- Spacewalks
- Wake-up calls
- Mission insignia
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-129 (ISS assembly flight ULF3) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Atlantis was launched on November 16, 2009, at 14:28 EST, and landed at 09:44 EST on November 27, 2009, on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. It was also the last Shuttle mission of the first decade of the 2000s.
STS-129 focused on staging spare components outside the station. The 11-day flight included three spacewalks. The payload bay carried two large ExPRESS Logistics Carriers holding two spare gyroscopes, two nitrogen tank assemblies, two pump modules, an ammonia tank assembly, a spare latching end effector for the station's robotic arm, a spare trailing umbilical system for the Mobile Transporter, and a high-pressure gas tank. STS-129 was the first flight of an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier. The completion of this mission left six Space Shuttle flights remaining until the end of the Space Shuttle program, after STS-135 was approved in February 2011.