STS-106
Launched: September 8, 2000, 8:45:47 a.m. EDT
Landing: September 20, 2000, 3:58:01 a.m. EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Crew: Commander Terrence W. Wilcutt, Pilot Scott D. Altman, Mission Specialists Daniel C. Burbank, Edward T. Lu, Richard A. Mastracchio, Yuri I. Malenchenko and Boris V. Morokov
The purpose of the STS-106 mission was to prepare the International Space Station for the first crew launch. The 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 International Space Station. The astronauts spent a total of 5 days, 9 hours and 21 minutes inside the station before closing the hatch on the orbiting outpost.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts106-s-001
Date: April 2000
STS-106
Launched: September 8, 2000, 8:45:47 a.m. EDT
Landing: September 20, 2000, 3:58:01 a.m. EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space Shuttle: Atlantis
Crew: Commander Terrence W. Wilcutt, Pilot Scott D. Altman, Mission Specialists Daniel C. Burbank, Edward T. Lu, Richard A. Mastracchio, Yuri I. Malenchenko and Boris V. Morokov
The purpose of the STS-106 mission was to prepare the International Space Station for the first crew launch. The 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 International Space Station. The astronauts spent a total of 5 days, 9 hours and 21 minutes inside the station before closing the hatch on the orbiting outpost.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts106-s-001
Date: April 2000