STS-122
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104
United Space Alliance
Crew
Rex J. Walheim
Status: Retired
10/10/1962 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/8/2002
Last Flight: 7/8/2011
Rex Joseph Walheim is a retired United States Air Force officer, engineer and NASA astronaut. He flew three space shuttle missions, STS-110, STS-122, and STS-135. Walheim logged over 566 hours in space, including 36 hours and 23 minutes of spacewalk (EVA) time. He was assigned as mission specialist and flight engineer on STS-135, the final space shuttle mission.
Stephen Frick
Status: Retired
9/30/1964 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/8/2002
Last Flight: 2/7/2008
Stephen Nathaniel Frick is an American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Frick graduated from Pine-Richland High School in 1982, earned a degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1986, was commissioned as a United States Navy officer, and trained as a F/A-18 fighter pilot. Stationed aboard the carrier USS Saratoga, he flew combat missions during the Gulf War and then earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994.
Frick was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in 1996 and was trained as a Space Shuttle pilot. He piloted mission STS-110, a docking mission with the International Space Station.
In July 2006, Frick was assigned to command the crew of STS-122. The 12-day mission delivered the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory and returned Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Daniel M. Tani to Earth. The mission launched February 7, 2008, and touched down February 20, 2008. NASA announced his retirement in July 2015.
Alan G. Poindexter
Status: Deceased
11/5/1961 - 7/1/2012
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 2/7/2008
Last Flight: 4/5/2010
Alan Goodwin "Dex" Poindexter was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut. Poindexter was selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122, and STS-131.
Leland D. Melvin
Status: Retired
2/15/1964 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 2/7/2008
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 mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129. Melvin was named the NASA Associate Administrator for Education in October 2010.
Stanley G. Love
Status: Active
6/8/1965 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 2/7/2008
Last Flight: 2/7/2008
Stanley Glen Love, Ph.D. is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut from Oregon.
Léopold Eyharts
Status: Active
4/28/1957 -
Nationality: French
Type: Government
First Flight: 1/29/1998
Last Flight: 2/7/2008
Léopold Eyharts (born April 28, 1957) is a French Brigadier General in the French Air Force, an engineer and ESA astronaut.
Hans Schlegel
Status: Retired
8/3/1951 -
Nationality: German
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/26/1993
Last Flight: 2/7/2008
Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (Überlingen, 3 August 1951) is a German physicist, an ESA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions.
From 1995 to 1997, he trained as the backup crew member for the German-Russian Mir'97 mission, and afterwards received additional training in Russia to become qualified as a second board engineer for the Mir space station. In 1998, he became a member of the European Astronaut Corps.
Schlegel was a Mission Specialist on the STS-122 Space Shuttle mission. The mission was charged with the responsibility of putting the Columbus laboratory in orbit, in addition to its connection to the International Space Station.
Mission
STS-122
Type: Human Exploration
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
205 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
Agency
United Space Alliance
Type: Commercial
Abbreviation: USA
Founded: 1995
Launchers: Space Shuttle
Country: USA
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.
