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Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-112
United Space AllianceLaunch Successful

STS-112

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This page records Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-112 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.

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Launch Successful

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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission

STS-112 (ISS assembly flight 9A) was an 11-day space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to deliver the 28,000 pound Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment to the Space Station. Ending a 4.5-million-mile journey, Atlantis landed at 15:44 UTC on 18 October 2002 on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility.

Launch vehicle
Space Shuttle
Mission type
Human Exploration
Destination orbit
Low Earth Orbit
Spacecraft
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Destination
International Space Station
Launch pad
Launch Complex 39B
Provider
United Space Alliance
Programs
Space Shuttle, International Space Station

The vehicle

Published configuration and flight history.

Space Shuttle
Launch vehicle

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.

Height
56.1 m
Diameter
8 m
Stages
2
Recorded launches
135
First flight
1981-04-12

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Launch site & orbit

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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