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| STS-128 |
Mission insignia
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| Mission statistics |
| Mission name |
STS-128 |
| Space Shuttle |
Atlantis |
| Launch pad |
39A |
| Launch date |
July 30, 2009 [1] |
| Landing |
TBD |
| Mission duration |
11 Days |
| Number of orbits |
TBD |
| Orbital altitude |
122 nautical miles (225 km) |
| Orbital inclination |
51.6 degrees |
| Distance traveled |
TBD |
| Related missions |
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STS-128 is a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), planned for no earlier than July 30, 2009. It is expected to use Space Shuttle Atlantis.[2] Its primary payload will be the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Donatello.[3] Donatello will deliver equipment allowing the station crew to be expanded from three to six astronauts. This will be ISS assembly mission "17A".
On July 15, 2008 NASA announced the official STS-128 crew.[4]
Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to, and including this mission.
[edit] Crew notes
Stott is the second to last ISS crewmember who will be launched by a Space Shuttle. NASA plans for her and Expedition 20 member Jeffrey Williams to return aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.[5]
Forrester and Olivias have done two spacewalks each and Fuglesang three.
[edit] Mission parameters
[edit] Mission payload
The payload of STS-128 Atlantis is the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Donatello. It is also the first time Atlantis will carry an MPLM. Donatello's purpose is to establish a six-man crew capacity with more hardware than the other two, Leonardo and Raffaelo.
[edit] Mission background
The mission will include three spacewalks to remove and replace a materials processing experiment outside ESA's Columbus module and return an empty ammonia tank assembly.[6]
[edit] Mission timeline
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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