STS-133
Sign in to saveSTS-133 (ISS assembly flight ULF5) was the 133rd mission in NASA's Space Shuttle program; during the mission, Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station. It was Discovery's 39th and final mission. The mission launched on February 24, 2011, and landed on March 9, 2011. The crew consisted of six American astronauts, all of whom had been on prior spaceflights, headed by Commander Steven Lindsey. The crew joined the long-duration six person crew of Expedition 26, who were already aboard the space station. About a month before lift-off, one of the original crew members, Tim
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- STS-133 Installation PMM 3.jpg
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- Canadarm2 installs the PMM Leonardo
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- ISS assembly
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- NASA
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- 12days, 19hours, 4minutes, 50seconds
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- Kennedy, LC-39A
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- Kennedy, SLF Runway 15
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- 6
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- STS-133 Official Crew Photo.jpg
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- From left to right: Alvin Drew, Nicole Stott, Eric Boe, Steven Lindsey, Michael Barratt and Steve Bowen
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- February 25, 2011
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- Geocentric
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37 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission payload
- Permanent Multipurpose Module
- ExPRESS Logistics Carrier 4
- Robonaut2
- SpaceX DragonEye sensor
- Other items
- Crew training
- Terminal countdown demonstration test
- Shuttle processing
- Orbital Maneuvering System vapor leak
- Main engine controller problem
- Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate leak
- Cracks in the external tank
- ''Johannes Kepler'' ATV rescheduled
- Launch attempts
- Mission timeline
- February 24 (Flight Day 1 – Launch)
- February 25 (Flight Day 2 – OBSS inspection)
- February 26 (Flight Day 3 – ISS rendezvous)
- February 27 (Flight Day 4)
- February 28 (Flight Day 5 – EVA 1)
- March 1 (Flight Day 6 – PMM installation)
- March 2 (Flight Day 7 – EVA 2)
- March 3 (Flight Day 8)
- March 4 (Flight Day 9)
- March 5 (Flight Day 10)
- March 6 (Flight Day 11)
- March 7 (Flight Day 12 – Undocking)
- March 8 (Flight Day 13)
- March 9 (Flight Day 14 – Re-entry and landing)
- Spacewalks
- Wake-up calls
- See also
- References
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STS-133 (ISS assembly flight ULF5) was the 133rd mission in NASA's Space Shuttle program; during the mission, Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station. It was Discovery's 39th and final mission. The mission launched on February 24, 2011, and landed on March 9, 2011. The crew consisted of six American astronauts, all of whom had been on prior spaceflights, headed by Commander Steven Lindsey. The crew joined the long-duration six person crew of Expedition 26, who were already aboard the space station. About a month before lift-off, one of the original crew members, Tim Kopra, was injured in a bicycle accident. He was replaced by Stephen Bowen.
The mission transported several items to the space station, including the Permanent Multipurpose Module Leonardo, which was left permanently docked to one of the station's ports. The shuttle also carried the third of four ExPRESS Logistics Carriers to the ISS, as well as a humanoid robot called Robonaut. The mission marked both the 133rd flight of the Space Shuttle program and the 39th and final flight of Discovery, with the orbiter completing a cumulative total of a whole year (365 days) in space.