LAUNCH CENTER
Success
Tue Jul 04 2006
United Space Alliance
STS-121
Launch Successful
LAUNCH PREVIEW
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(6:37 PM UTC)
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(6:37 PM UTC)
Launch Window End
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(6:37 PM UTC)
RECOVERY OVERVIEW
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Rocket Details
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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