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Tue Jul 04 2006
United Space Alliance

STS-121

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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

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Rocket Details

Name:

Space Shuttle

Description:

Space Shuttle rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Human Exploration
  • STS-121 was a 2006 NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. The main purposes of the mission were to test new safety and repair techniques introduced following the Columbia disaster of February 2003 as well as to deliver supplies, equipment and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Reiter from Germany to the ISS.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Pad

Launch Complex 39B