STS-132

Kenneth Ham

• Birthday: 12/12/1964
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 05/31/2008
• Last Flight: 05/14/2010

Kenneth Todd "Hock" Ham is a retired American astronaut and a captain in the United States Navy. Ham was selected f...

Dominic A. Antonelli

• Birthday: 08/23/1967
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 03/15/2009
• Last Flight: 05/14/2010

Dominic Anthony "Tony" Antonelli is a retired NASA astronaut.

Garrett Reisman

• Birthday: 02/10/1968
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 03/11/2008
• Last Flight: 05/14/2010

Garrett Erin Reisman is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and joi...

Michael T. Good

• Birthday: 10/13/1962
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 05/11/2009
• Last Flight: 05/14/2010

Michael Timothy "Bueno" Good is a NASA astronaut and retired commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, h...

Piers Sellers

• Birthday: 04/11/1955
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/07/2002
• Last Flight: 05/14/2010

Piers John Sellers OBE was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut[1] and Director of the Earth Science Division at ...

Stephen Bowen

• Birthday: 02/13/1964
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 11/15/2008
• Last Flight: 03/02/2023

Stephen Gerard Bowen is a United States Navy submariner and a NASA astronaut; he was the second submariner to travel into spa...

Mission

STS-132

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

STS-132 was the second to last flight of Atlantis and an ISS assembly flight with the primary payload being the Russian Rassvet Mini-Research Module. The flight also carried the Integrated Cargo Carrier-Vertical Light Deployable (ICC-VLD). The mission began on May 14th 2010 at 1820 UTC launching Commander Kenneth Ham, Pilot Domonic A. Antonelli, Mission Specialist 1 Garrett Reisman, Mission Specialist 2 Michael T. Good, Mission Specialist 3 Stephen G. Bowen & Mission Specialist 4 Piers Sellers to orbit. They docked with the ISS 2 days after launch. During the mission 3 spacewalks were conducted to install a spare space to ground Ku band antenna and to conduct general maintenence on the ISS. The mission concluded after 11 days & 18 hours on May 26th 2010 at 1249:18 UTC.

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.