STS-111

Kenneth Cockrell

• Birthday: 04/09/1950
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/08/1993
• Last Flight: 06/05/2002

Kenneth Dale "Taco" Cockrell is an American astronaut and a veteran of five space shuttle missions.

Paul Lockhart

• Birthday: 04/28/1956
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/05/2002
• Last Flight: 11/24/2002

Paul Scott "Paco" Lockhart is an American aerospace engineer, retired United States Air Force Colonel and NASA astr...

Philippe Perrin

• Birthday: 01/06/1963
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: France
• First Flight: 06/05/2002
• Last Flight: 06/05/2002

Philippe Perrin (Colonel, French Air Force) (born January 6, 1963) is a French test pilot and former CNES and European Space ...

Sergei Treshchov

• Birthday: 08/18/1958
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Russia
• First Flight: 06/05/2002
• Last Flight: 06/05/2002

Sergei Yevgenyevich Treshchov (Сергей Евгеньевич Трещёв, born 18 August 1958) is a former cosmonaut of ...

Valery Korzun

• Birthday: 03/05/1953
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Russia
• First Flight: 08/17/1996
• Last Flight: 06/05/2002

Valery Grigoryevich Korzun (Russian: Валерий Григорьевич Корзун, born 5 March 1953) is a Russian cosm...

Peggy Whitson

• Birthday: 02/09/1960
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/05/2002
• Last Flight: 05/21/2023

Peggy Annette Whitson is an American biochemistry researcher, retired NASA astronaut, and former NASA Chief Astronaut. Her fi...

Franklin Chang Díaz

• Birthday: 04/05/1950
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/12/1986
• Last Flight: 06/05/2002

Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz is a Costa Rican Chinese American mechanical engineer, physicist, former NASA astronaut. He is th...

Mission

STS-111

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

STS-111 was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. STS-111 resupplied the station and replaced the Expedition 4 crew with the Expedition 5 crew. It was launched on 5 June 2002, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

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.