NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

STS-129

Launch Time
Mon Nov 16, 2009 19:28 UTC

Rocket

Space Shuttle Atlantis
NASA
Status: Retired
Price: $450.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 30,250 kN
Payload to LEO: 27,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 3,810 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 2
Rocket Height: 56.1 m

Vehicles

Kennedy SLF Runway 33

OV-104

Flight #31
189 day turnaround

Mission Details

STS-129

TS-129 (ISS assembly flight ULF3) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). STS-129 focused on staging spare components outside the station. The 11-day flight included three spacewalks. The payload bay carried two large ExPRESS Logistics Carriers holding two spare gyroscopes, two nitrogen tank assemblies, two pump modules, an ammonia tank assembly, a spare latching end effector for the station's robotic arm, a spare trailing umbilical system for the Mobile Transporter, and a high-pressure gas tank. STS-129 was the first flight of an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier.

Total Mass: 16,027.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Stats

2009

65th orbital launch attempt

Space Shuttle

129th mission
5th mission of 2009
127th successful mission
16th consecutive successful mission