STS-88
Sign in to saveSTS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour, and took the first American module, the Unity node, to the station.
Key facts
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- STS-88
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- Space Transportation System-88
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- Endeavour Canadarm positions Zarya above Unity, immediately prior to mating
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- ISS assembly
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- NASA
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- 186
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- 11 days, 19 hours, 18 minutes, 47 seconds.
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- 28,862kg (63,652lb)
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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-88 crew.jpg
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- Left to right – Front: Krikalev, Currie; Back: Ross, Cabana, Sturckow, Newman
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Article
25 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Launch attempts
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Mission timeline
- Launch preparations
- 3–4 December (Flight Day 1, Launch)
- 4 December (Flight Day 2)
- 5 December (Flight Day 3)
- 6 December (Flight Day 4, Docking with Zarya)
- 7 December (Flight Day 5, EVA 1)
- 8 December (Flight Day 6)
- 9 December (Flight Day 7, EVA 2)
- 10 December (Flight Day 8, Entrance into the ISS)
- 11 December (Flight Day 9)
- 12 December (Flight Day 10, EVA 3)
- 13 December (Flight Day 11, Undocking)
- 14 December (Flight Day 12)
- 15 December (Flight Day 13, Landing)
- Extra-vehicular activity
- Wake-up calls
- Media
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour, and took the first American module, the Unity node, to the station.
The seven-day mission was highlighted by the mating of the U.S.-built Unity node to the Functional Cargo Block (Zarya module) already in orbit, and three spacewalks to connect power and data transmission cables between the Node and the FGB. Zarya, built by Boeing and the Russian Space Agency, was launched on a Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in November 1998.