Shuttle: Endeavour
Launch Pad: LC-39A
Astronauts: 6
Launch: February 7, 2010 4:39 am EST.
Landing: February 19,2010
Duration: 13 days
Number of Orbits: N/A
Orbit Altitud: 122 Nautical Miles(225 km)
Orbit Inclination: 51,6 grades
Primary Payload:32nd station flight (20A), Tranquility Node 3, Cupola
Commander George Zamka will lead the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour. Terry Virts will serve as the pilot. Mission Specialists are Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire. Virts will be making his first trip to space.
Launch Pad: LC-39A
Astronauts: 6
Launch: February 7, 2010 4:39 am EST.
Landing: February 19,2010
Duration: 13 days
Number of Orbits: N/A
Orbit Altitud: 122 Nautical Miles(225 km)
Orbit Inclination: 51,6 grades
Primary Payload:32nd station flight (20A), Tranquility Node 3, Cupola
Commander George Zamka will lead the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour. Terry Virts will serve as the pilot. Mission Specialists are Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire. Virts will be making his first trip to space.
The mission marks.
161st American manned space flight
130th shuttle mission since STS-1
24th flight of Endeavour
32nd shuttle mission to the ISS
1st shuttle flight in 2010
105th post-Challenger mission
17th post-Columbia mission
34th night launch of a shuttle, 21st night launch from launch pad 39A
23rd night landing, 21st night landing at Kennedy Space Center
73rd landing at Kennedy Space Center
Endeavour arrives at Pad 39A on 06 January, 2010 for the STS 130 mission.
Space Shuttle Endeavour was moved from her hanger in the Orbiter Processing Facility 2 to the Vehicle Assembly Building High bay 1 on December 11, 2009. Roll over began at 13:00 EDT and was completed 1hour 5minutes later at 14:05 EDT.
Endeavour moved from the Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad 39A. The process started at 04:13 EDT on 6 January 2010. Before rolling out to the launch pad, engineers at Kennedy Space Center had an extended preparation time to get Endeavour ready to move to the launch pad due to the unusually cold weather. The 3.4 miles (5.5 km) was completed at 10:37 EDT. The trip took 6hrs 24min.
Endeavour will deliver a third connecting module - the Tranquility node - to the station and a
seven-windowed cupola to be used as a control room for robotics. The mission will feature three spacewalks.
The STS-130 patch was designed by the crew to reflect both the objectives of the mission and its place in the history of human spaceflight. The shape of the patch represents the cupola. The image of Earth is the first photograph of the Earth taken from the moon by Lunar Orbiter I on Aug. 23, 1966. As both a past and a future destination for explorers from the planet Earth, the moon is thus represented symbolically in the patch. The space shuttle Endeavour is pictured approaching the space station, symbolizing the shuttle's role as the prime construction vehicle for the complex.
