STS-124
Discovery launches with Kibo
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| Mission type | ISS assembly | ||||
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| Operator | NASA | ||||
| COSPAR ID | 2008-027A | ||||
| SATCAT № | 32960 | ||||
| Mission duration | 13 days, 18 hours, 13 minutes 7 seconds | ||||
| Distance travelled | 9,230,622.6 kilometers (5,735,643.0 mi) | ||||
| Orbits completed | 217 | ||||
| Spacecraft properties | |||||
| Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery | ||||
| Launch mass | 122,072 kilograms (269,123 lb) | ||||
| Landing mass | 92,220 kilograms (203,320 lb) | ||||
| Crew | |||||
| Crew size | 7 | ||||
| Members |
Mark E. Kelly Kenneth T. Ham Karen L. Nyberg Ronald J. Garan, Jr. Michael E. Fossum Akihiko Hoshide |
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| Launching | Gregory E. Chamitoff | ||||
| Landing | Garret E. Reisman | ||||
| Start of mission | |||||
| Launch date | 31 May 2008, 21:02:12 UTC | ||||
| Launch site | Kennedy LC-39A | ||||
| End of mission | |||||
| Landing date | 14 June 2008, 15:15:19 UTC | ||||
| Landing site | Kennedy SLF Runway 15 | ||||
| Orbital parameters | |||||
| Reference system | Geocentric | ||||
| Regime | Low Earth | ||||
| Perigee | 328 kilometres (177 nmi) | ||||
| Apogee | 307 kilometres (166 nmi) | ||||
| Inclination | 51.6 degrees | ||||
| Period | 91 minutes | ||||
| Docking with ISS | |||||
| Docking port |
PMA-2 (Harmony forward) |
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| Docking date | 2 June 2008, 18:03 UTC | ||||
| Undocking date | 11 June 2008, 11:42 UTC | ||||
| Time docked | 8 days, 17 hours, 39 minutes | ||||
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From left to right: Chamitoff, Fossum, Ham, Kelly, Nyberg, Garan and Hoshide
STS-124 was a Space Shuttle mission, flown by Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station. Discovery launched on 31 May 2008 at 17:02 EDT, moved from an earlier scheduled launch date of 25 May 2008, and landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, at 11:15 EDT on 14 June 2008. The mission is also referred to as ISS-1J by the ISS program.
"I’m really fortunate to be given the crew members that I have on this mission. It’s myself and six others. We do swap one of our crew members with the expedition crew member on board. So Greg goes up, Greg stays on station and Garrett comes home. But the crew that was assigned to me—I’m really fortunate to have some really talented people. Ken Ham, as a pilot, knows the orbiter better than anybody I’ve seen. This is his first flight. My lead EVA crew member is Mike Fossum who did three spacewalks on my previous flight, STS-121. We’ve flown together before. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability to execute these EVAs. Karen Nyberg, my MS1, sits on the flight deck for ascent and entry. She’s also the lead for all the robotic arm operations. She’ll be flying three robotic arms in space, incredibly motivated, well ahead of the game and I expect great things from her. Ron Garan is my flight engineer, a colonel in the Air Force. This is going to be his first time in space as well as is Karen’s and Ken’s and he’s doing three spacewalks. So he's got a lot on his plate. He’s been doing great during training and he’s going to have the opportunity to prove himself during these three spacewalks. I kind of wish it was me getting to go outside. I can’t do that, but we expect great things from Ron as well. And then I have Aki Hoshide, our Japanese crew member, who grew up in New Jersey kind of like me. That’s an interesting thing about our flight—we have four people from New Jersey on the mission. I look at Aki as the payload commander. He is responsible for that Japanese laboratory and he has taken on that responsibility as completely as I could have hoped for. All through our training he’s been very much focused on the Japanese lab, making sure it’s ready to go, making sure we’re completely trained on the systems and everything we have to do. I’ve given him a lot of responsibility and he’s completely taken it on."
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