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
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 |
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