Topic: History

STS-106 Mission Highlights

STS-106’s mission to the 143-foot-long station focused on unloading nearly three tons of cargo from the orbiter and a Progress supply craft already docked to the opposite end of the […]

STS-113 Mission Highlights

STS-113 dropped off the Expedition Six crew members at the orbital outpost, and brought back the Expedition Five crew at mission’s end. During the 14-day mission, the combined Endeavour and […]

STS-108 Mission Highlights

In December 2001, the space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station during the STS-108 mission. The primary goals for the four-member shuttle crew of astronauts Dominic L. Gorie, […]

STS-61C Mission Highlights

STS-61C was the 24th mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. STS-65 marked second flight of International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2), carrying more than […]

STS-112 Mission Highlights

Primary payloads for STS-112 were the S1 integrated truss segment and the Crew and Equipment Translation Aid Cart A. The CETA is the first of two human-powered carts that will […]