STS-133
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103
United Space Alliance
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Crew
Steven Lindsey
- Birthday: 08/24/1960
- Role: Commander
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 11/19/1997
- Last Flight: 02/24/2011
Steven Wayne Lindsey is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Lindsey served as Chief of the NASA Astronaut Of...
Eric Boe
- Birthday: 10/01/1964
- Role: Pilot
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 11/15/2008
- Last Flight: 02/24/2011
Eric Allen Boe is a United States Air Force fighter pilot Colonel, test pilot, a Civil Air Patrol member, and a NASA astrona...
Alvin Drew
- Birthday: 11/05/1962
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 08/08/2007
- Last Flight: 02/24/2011
Colonel Benjamin Alvin Drew is a United States Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut. He has been on two spaceflights; the f...
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...
Michael Barratt
- Birthday: 04/16/1959
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 03/26/2009
- Last Flight: 03/04/2024
Michael Reed Barratt is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. Specializing in aerospace medicine, he served as a flight...
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-133
- Type: Human Exploration
- Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
- Launch Cost: $450,000,000
STS-133 was an ISS assembly flight. Payload included the Permanent Multipurpose Module Leonardo, which was left permanently docked to one of the station's ports. The shuttle also carried the third of four ExPRESS Logistics Carriers to the ISS, as well as a humanoid robot called Robonaut.
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.
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.
