STS-113

Jim Wetherbee

• Birthday: 11/27/1952
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/09/1990
• Last Flight: 11/24/2002

James Donald "Wxb" Wetherbee is an American former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and N...

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...

John Herrington

• Birthday: 09/14/1958
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 11/24/2002
• Last Flight: 11/24/2002

John Bennett Herrington is a retired United States Naval Aviator and former NASA astronaut. In 2002, Herrington became the f...

Nikolai Budarin

• Birthday: 04/29/1963
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Russia
• First Flight: 06/27/1995
• Last Flight: 11/24/2002

Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Бударин) (born April 29, 1953 in Kirya, Chu...

Donald Pettit

• Birthday: 04/20/1955
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 11/24/2002
• Last Flight: 09/11/2024

Donald Roy Pettit is an American chemical engineer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of two long-duration stays aboard th...

Ken Bowersox

• Birthday: 11/14/1956
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/25/1992
• Last Flight: 11/24/2002

Kenneth Dwane "Sox" Bowersox is a United States Navy officer, and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five ...

Michael López-Alegría

• Birthday: 05/30/1958
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/20/1995
• Last Flight: 01/18/2024

Michael López-Alegría is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Spac...

Mission

STS-113

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

STS-113 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. During the 14-day mission in late 2002, Endeavour and its crew extended the ISS backbone with the P1 truss and exchanged the Expedition 5 and Expedition 6 crews aboard the station. With Commander Jim Wetherbee and Pilot Paul Lockhart at the controls, Endeavour docked with the station on 25 November 2002 to begin seven days of station assembly, spacewalks and crew and equipment transfers. This was Endeavour’s last flight before entering its Orbiter Major Modification period until 2007, and also the last shuttle mission before the Columbia disaster.

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.