STS-106

Terrence W. Wilcutt

• Birthday: 10/31/1949
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 09/30/1994
• Last Flight: 09/08/2000

Terrence Wade Wilcutt is a United States Marine Corps officer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle mis...

Scott Altman

• Birthday: 08/15/1959
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/17/1998
• Last Flight: 05/11/2009

Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman is a retired United States Navy Captain, engineer, test pilot and former NASA astron...

Boris Morukov

• Birthday: 10/01/1950
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Russia
• First Flight: 09/08/2000
• Last Flight: 09/08/2000

Boris Vladimirovich Morukov (Russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Моруков; 1 October 1950 – 1 January 20...

Daniel C. Burbank

• Birthday: 07/27/1961
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 09/08/2000
• Last Flight: 11/14/2011

Daniel Christopher Burbank is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Burbank, a Captain in...

Ed Lu

• Birthday: 07/01/1963
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 05/15/1997
• Last Flight: 04/26/2003

Edward Tsang "Ed" Lu (simplified Chinese: 卢杰; traditional Chinese: 盧傑; pinyin: Lú Jié) is an American phy...

Richard Mastracchio

• Birthday: 02/11/1960
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 09/08/2000
• Last Flight: 11/07/2013

Richard Alan "Rick" Mastracchio is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He has flown on three NASA Space...

Yuri Malenchenko

• Birthday: 12/22/1961
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Russia
• First Flight: 07/01/1994
• Last Flight: 12/15/2015

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Маленченко; born December 22, 1961) is a retired Rus...

Mission

STS-106

• Type: Human Exploration
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

STS-106 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Location

Launch Complex 39B

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39B has witnessed the launch of 58 rockets, including 57 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 257 rocket launches.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

Rocket

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

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Agency

United Space Alliance

United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.