STS-128

Frederick W. Sturckow

• Birthday: 08/11/1961
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 12/04/1998
• Last Flight: 01/26/2024

Frederick Wilford "Rick" Sturckow is an Engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former NASA astronaut...

Kevin A. Ford

• Birthday: 07/07/1960
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/29/2009
• Last Flight: 10/23/2012

Kevin Anthony Ford is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and a NASA astronaut. Ford has received a number of special h...

José Hernández

• Birthday: 09/07/1962
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/29/2009
• Last Flight: 08/29/2009

José Moreno Hernández is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. After three years and being turned down eleven tim...

Christer Fuglesang

• Birthday: 03/18/1957
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Sweden
• First Flight: 12/10/2006
• Last Flight: 08/29/2009

Arne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957 in Stockholm) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched...

John D. Olivas

• Birthday: 05/25/1966
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/08/2007
• Last Flight: 08/29/2009

John Daniel "Danny" Olivas is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. Olivas has flown on two space shutt...

Nicole Stott

• Birthday: 11/19/1962
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/29/2009
• Last Flight: 02/24/2011

Nicole Marie Passonno Stott is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She served as a Flight Engineer on ISS Expedition 2...

Patrick G. Forrester

• Birthday: 03/31/1957
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/10/2001
• Last Flight: 08/29/2009

Patrick Graham Forrester is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. At the time of his retirement from the U...

Mission

STS-128

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

STS-128 (ISS assembly flight 17A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on 28 August 2009. Space Shuttle Discovery carried the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo as its primary payload. Leonardo contained a collection of experiments for studying the physics and chemistry of microgravity. Three spacewalks were carried out during the mission, which removed and replaced a materials processing experiment outside ESA's Columbus module, and returned an empty ammonia tank assembly.

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.