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STS-121
Space Shuttle · Human Exploration
2006Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center
Mission
STS-121 was a 2006 NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. The main purposes of the mission were to test new safety and repair techniques introduced following the Columbia disaster of February 2003 as well as to deliver supplies, equipment and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Reiter from Germany to the ISS.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USA
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39B
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2