STS-122

Stephen Frick

• Birthday: 09/30/1964
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/08/2002
• Last Flight: 02/07/2008

Stephen Nathaniel Frick is an American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylva...

Alan G. Poindexter

• Birthday: 11/05/1961
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/07/2008
• Last Flight: 04/05/2010

Alan Goodwin "Dex" Poindexter was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut. Poindexter was selected in the 19...

Stanley G. Love

• Birthday: 06/08/1965
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/07/2008
• Last Flight: 02/07/2008

Stanley Glen Love, Ph.D. is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut from Oregon.

Hans Schlegel

• Birthday: 08/03/1951
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Germany
• First Flight: 04/26/1993
• Last Flight: 02/07/2008

Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (Überlingen, 3 August 1951) is a German physicist, an ESA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space S...

Leland D. Melvin

• Birthday: 02/15/1964
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/07/2008
• Last Flight: 11/16/2009

Leland Devon Melvin is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a m...

Léopold Eyharts

• Birthday: 04/28/1957
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: France
• First Flight: 01/29/1998
• Last Flight: 02/07/2008

Léopold Eyharts (born April 28, 1957) is a French Brigadier General in the French Air Force, an engineer and ESA astronaut.

Rex J. Walheim

• Birthday: 10/10/1962
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/08/2002
• Last Flight: 07/08/2011

Rex Joseph Walheim is a retired United States Air Force officer, engineer and NASA astronaut. He flew three space shuttle mis...

Mission

STS-122

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

STS-122 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-122 marked the 24th shuttle mission to the ISS, and the 121st space shuttle flight overall. The mission was also referred to as ISS-1E by the ISS program. The primary objective of STS-122 was to deliver the European Columbus science laboratory, built by the European Space Agency (ESA), to the station. It also returned Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Daniel M. Tani to Earth. Tani was replaced on Expedition 16 by Léopold Eyharts, a French Flight Engineer representing ESA. After Atlantis' landing, the orbiter was prepared for STS-125, the final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 208 rockets, including 207 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 266 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.