![]() Kibō's pressurised module, two days after its installation, with Discovery in the background | |
Names | Space Transportation System-124 |
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Mission type | ISS assembly |
Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 2008-027A |
SATCAT no. | 32960 |
Mission duration | 13 days, 18 hours, 13 minutes 7 seconds |
Distance travelled | 9,230,622.6 kilometers (5,735,643.0 mi) |
Orbits completed | 217 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery |
Launch mass | 122,072 kilograms (269,123 lb) |
Landing mass | 92,220 kilograms (203,320 lb) |
Payload mass | 17530 kg [1] |
Crew | |
Crew size | 7 |
Members | |
Launching | |
Landing | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | May 31, 2008, 21:02:12[2] | UTC
Launch site | Kennedy, LC-39A |
End of mission | |
Landing date | June 14, 2008, 15:15:19[3] | UTC
Landing site | Kennedy, SLF Runway 15 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 307 kilometres (166 nmi) |
Apogee altitude | 328 kilometres (177 nmi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 91 minutes |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | PMA-2 (Harmony forward) |
Docking date | June 2, 2008, 18:03 UTC |
Undocking date | June 11, 2008, 11:42 UTC |
Time docked | 8 days, 17 hours, 39 minutes |
![]() ![]() From left to right: Chamitoff, Fossum, Ham, Kelly, Nyberg, Garan and Hoshide |
STS-124 was a Space Shuttle mission, flown by Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station. Discovery launched on May 31, 2008, at 17:02 EDT, moved from an earlier scheduled launch date of May 25, 2008,[4] and landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, at 11:15 EDT on June 14, 2008. Its objective was to deliver the largest module of the space station – Kibō, the Japanese Experiment Module pressurized section. The mission is also referred to as ISS-1J by the ISS program.