Spaceflight Now | STS-106 | Quick Look Data

Quick look data
COMPILED BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
Updated: August 31, 2000

Important facts and figures about shuttle mission STS-106:

Mission summary

Mission: STS-106 (flight 99)
Orbiter: Atlantis (22nd flight)
Pad/MLP: 39B/MLP-2/FR2/3
Runway: TBD, KSC Shuttle Landing Facility
Altitude: 218 statute miles (at ISS docking)
Inclination: 51.6 degrees
Primary TAL site: Zaragoza
Payload: ISS 04/2A.2b (station outfitting)
Airlock: External
Tunnel adapter: #001

STS-106 by the numbers

This will be the:

99th Shuttle mission since STS-1
3rd of 5 flights planned for 2000
74th Post-Challenger mission
22nd Flight of Atlantis (Serial Number: OV-104)
43rd Launch off pad 39B
14th Flight with 51.6-degree inclination
52nd KSC landing
23rd KSC landing in a row

Time since Challenger (as of 09/08/00): 14.6 years or 5,336 days

Crew

Commander: Marine Corps Col. Terrence Wilcutt (STS-68, 79, 89)
Pilot: Navy Cmdr. Scott Altman (STS-90)
MS1/EV1: Edward Lu, Ph.D. (STS-84)
MS2/FE/RMS: Richard Mastracchio (Rookie)
MS3/IV: Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Burbank (Rookie)
MS4/EV2: Russian Air Force Col. Yuri Malenchenko (Mir-16)
MS5: Russian cosmonaut Boris Morukov, Ph.D., M.D. (Rookie)

See our crew page for more detailed information.
Space Shuttle Program Statistics

Shuttle DD HH MM SS Flights

Challenger 062 07 56 22 10

Columbia 273 21 09 10 26

Discovery 204 07 55 57 27

Atlantis 160 18 40 50 21

Endeavour 144 09 46 54 14

TOTAL
845 17 29 13 98

Shuttle Atlantis Flight History

Atlantis history

Space Shuttle Launch History

Pad 39A Pad 39B Total

Night Launches
13 10 23

Day Launches
43 32 75

TOTAL
56 42 98

Most Recent
05/19/00 12/19/99

Space Shuttle Landing History

KSC EAFB WS Total

Night Landings
09 05 00 14

Day Landings
42 40 01 83

TOTAL
51 45 01 97

Most Recent
05/29/00 03/31/96 03/30/82

Space Shuttle Abort History

Shuttle

Date

Type

Notes

1 Discovery
06/26/84

RSLS

SSME-3 main fuel valve

2 Challenger
07/12/85

RSLS

SSME-2 chamber coolant valve

3 Challenger
07/29/85

ATO

SSME-2 shutdown at T+5:45

4 Columbia
03/22/93

RSLS

SSME oxidizer valve

5 Discovery
08/12/93

RSLS

SSME-2 fuel flow meter

6 Endeavour
08/18/94

RSLS

SSME high O2 pump temps

Space Shuttle Minimum Duration Missions

Flight
Cause of shortened mission

1
STS-2
Fuel cell failure; five-day flight cut to MET 2/06:13

2
STS-44
IMU failure; 10-day flight cut to MET 6/22:52

3
STS-83
Fuel cell failure; 16-day flight cut to MET 3/23:13

See our stats page for even more space trivia and information.

At a glance
Vehicle: Atlantis (OV-104)
Payload: ISS 2A.2b
Launch date: Sept. 8, 2000
Launch time: 1245:47.066 GMT (8:45:47.066 a.m. EDT)
Launch site: LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Landing date: Sept. 20, 2000
Landing time: 0756 GMT (3:56 a.m. EDT)
Landing site: SLF, KSC
Crew: Wilcutt, Altman, Lu, Malenchenko, Morukov, Mastracchio, Burbank

Flight Data File

Quick look data - Facts, figures and important information about the mission.

Flight plan - A detailed day-by-day timetable of the major mission events based on NASA's official flight plan.

Landing opportunities - The available deorbit and landing options to bring Atlantis home, plus entry timeline.

NASA TV - The schedule for NASA TV programming during the STS-106 mission.

Tracking spacecraft - Latest orbital data for tracking the shuttle, station and other satellites on your computer.

The crew - Meet the seven astronauts who will fly aboard shuttle Atlantis.

Space demographics before and after - How the space explorers numbers will stack up before and after STS-106.

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