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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.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: sts106-s-001

Date: April 2000

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