STS-127

Mark L. Polansky

• Birthday: 06/02/1956
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/07/2001
• Last Flight: 07/15/2009

Mark Lewis "Roman" Polansky is an American aerospace engineer and research pilot and a former NASA astronaut. Polan...

Douglas G. Hurley

• Birthday: 10/21/1966
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 07/15/2009
• Last Flight: 05/30/2020

Douglas Gerald Hurley is an engineer and retired NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-127, which launched Jul...

Julie Payette

• Birthday: 10/20/1963
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Canada
• First Flight: 05/27/1999
• Last Flight: 07/15/2009

Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD (born October 20, 1963) is the current Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Con...

Timothy Kopra

• Birthday: 04/09/1963
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 07/15/2009
• Last Flight: 12/15/2015

Timothy Lennart "Tim" Kopra is an engineer, a Colonel in the United States Army and a retired NASA astronaut. He se...

Christopher Cassidy

• Birthday: 01/04/1970
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 07/15/2009
• Last Flight: 04/09/2020

Christopher John "Chris" Cassidy is a NASA astronaut and United States Navy SEAL. Chris Cassidy achieved the rank o...

Thomas Marshburn

• Birthday: 08/29/1960
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 07/15/2009
• Last Flight: 11/11/2021

Thomas Henry "Tom" Marshburn is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. He served as a Mission Specialist on ST...

David Wolf

• Birthday: 08/23/1956
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/18/1993
• Last Flight: 07/15/2009

David Alexander Wolf is an American astronaut, medical doctor and electrical engineer. Wolf has been to space four times. Thr...

Mission

STS-127

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

STS-127 (ISS assembly flight 2J/A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was the twenty-third flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The primary purpose of the STS-127 mission was to deliver and install the final two components of the Japanese Experiment Module: the Exposed Facility (JEM EF), and the Exposed Section of the Experiment Logistics Module (ELM-ES). When Endeavour docked with the ISS on this mission in July 2009, it set a record for the most humans in space at the same time in the same vehicle, the first time thirteen people have been at the station at the same time. It also tied the record of thirteen people in space at any one time.

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.