Endeavour was NASA's fifth and final space shuttle orbiter to join the fleet at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Endeavour also is known inside the space agency by its designation Orbiter Vehicle-105, or OV-105.
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Flights of Space Shuttle Endeavour
1. Flights of Endeavour (OV-105)
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Times Mission Launch Launch Landing Date
Flown Name Crew Pad Date & Site Primary Payload
1 STS-49 Brandenstein, Chilton, Melnick, Akers, Hieb, Thuot, Thornton 39B 05/07/92 05/16/92 at EAFB Rescue, repair, redeploy INTELSAT VI (F-3)
2 STS-47 Gibson, Brown, Lee, Davis, Apt, Jemison, Mohri 39B 09/12/92 09/20/92 at KSC Spacelab-J
3 STS-54 Casper, McMonagle, Harbaugh, Runco, Helms 39B 01/13/93 01/19/93 at KSC TDRS-F; DXS
4 STS-57 Grabe, Duffy, Low, Sherlock, Voss, Wisoff 39B 06/21/93 07/01/93 at KSC SPACEHAB; EURECA Retrieval
5 STS-61 Covey, Bowersox, Musgrave, Hoffman, Thornton, Akers, Nicollier 39B 12/02/93 12/13/93 at KSC 1st Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission
6 STS-59 Gutierrez, Chilton, Godwin, Apt, Clifford, Jones 39A 04/09/94 04/20/94 at EAFB Space Radar Laboratory-1 (SRL-1)
7 STS-68 Baker, Wilcutt, Jones, Bursch, Wisoff, Smith 39A 09/30/94 10/11/94 at EAFB Space Radar Laboratory-2 (SRL-2)
8 STS-67 Oswald, Gregory, Jernigan, Lawrence, Grunsfeld, Durrance, Parise 39A 03/02/95 03/18/95 at EAFB Astro-2
9 STS-69 Walker, Cockrell, Voss, Newman, Gernhardt 39A 09/07/95 09/18/95 at KSC Wake Shield Facility-2; Spartan-201-3
10 STS-72 Duffy, Jett, Barry, Chiao, Scott, Wakata 39B 01/11/96 01/20/96 at KSC Japanese Space Flyer Unit (SFU); Office of Aeronautics
and Space Technology (OAST) Flyer
11 STS-77 Casper, Brown, Thomas, Bursch, Runco, Garheau 39B 05/19/96 05/29/96 at KSC SPACEHAB-4; SPARTAN Inflatable Antenna Experiment (IAE)
12 STS-89 Wilcutt, Edwards, Anderson, Dunbar, Reilly, Sharipov; 39A 01/22/98 01/31/98 at KSC 10th Shuttle-Mir Mission - 8th docking ; SPACEHAB-DM
Thomas (up to Mir); Wolf (down from Mir)
13 STS-88 Cabana, Sturckow, Currie, Ross, Newman, Krikalev 39A 12/04/98 12/15/98 at KSC 1st ISS Mission - Unity node
14 STS-99 Kregel, Gorie, Kavandi, Voss, Mohri, Thiele 39A 02/11/00 02/22/00 at KSC Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
15 STS-97 Jett, Bloomfield, Tanner, Noriega, Garneau 39B 11/30/00 12/11/00 at KSC 6th ISS Mission - U.S. Solar Arrays
16 STS-100 Rominger, Ashby, Hadfield, Parazynski, Phillips, 39A 04/19/01 05/01/01 at EAFB 9th ISS Mission - SSRMS; MPLM Raffaello; UHF Antenna
Lonchakov, Guidoni
17 STS-108 Gorie, Kelly, Godwin, Tani; Onufriyenko, Walz, Bursch (up to ISS); 39B 12/05/01 12/17/01 at KSC 12th ISS Mission - Utilization Flight-1; MPLM Raffaello
Culbertson, Tyurin, Dezhurov (down from ISS)
18 STS-111 Cockrell, Lockhart, Chang-Diaz, Perrin; Korzun, Whitson; 39A 06/05/02 06/19/02 at EAFB 14th ISS Mission - Utilization Flight-2; Mobile Remote Service
Treschev (up to ISS); Onufrienko, Bursch, Walz (down from ISS) Base System; Orbital Replacement Unit; MPLM Leonardo
19 STS-113 Wetherbee, Lockhart, Lopez-Alegria, Herrington; Bowersox, Pettit 39A 11/23/02 12/07/02 at KSC 16th ISS Mission - P1 Integrated Truss Segment
Budarin, (up to ISS); Korzun, Whitson, Treschev (down from ISS)
20 STS-118 Kelly, Hobaugh, Williams, Morgan, Mastracchio, Caldwell, Drew 39A 08/08/07 08/21/07 at KSC 22nd ISS Mission - S5 truss; gyroscope; ESP3
21 STS-123 Gorie, Johnson, Linnehan, Behnken, Foreman, Doi; 39A 03/11/08 03/26/08 at KSC 25th ISS Mission - Japanese ELM-PS; Dextre Robotics System
Reisman (up to ISS); Eyharts (down from ISS)
22 STS-126 Ferguson, Boe, Bowen, Kimbrough, Stefanyshyn-Piper, Pettit; 39A 11/14/08 11/30/08 at EAFB 27th ISS Mission - MPLM Leonardo
FS-2011-5-097-KSC
Magnus (up to ISS); Chamitoff (down from ISS)
23 STS-127 Polansky, Hurley, Cassidy, Marshburn, Wolf, Payette; 39A 07/15/09 07/31/09 at KSC 29th ISS Mission - JEM EF; ELM-ES; ICC-VLD
Kopra (up to ISS); Wakata (down from ISS)
24 STS-130 Zamka, Virts, Behnken, Hire, Patrick, Robinson 39A 02/08/10 02/21/10 at KSC 32nd ISS Mission - Tranquility module;Cupola
25 STS-134 Kelly, Johnson, Chamitoff, Feustel, Fincke, Vittori 39A Scheduled for 05/16/11 36th ISS Mission (final planned mission for Endeavour) -
ELC-3; Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS)
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ENDEAVOUR
(OV-105)
ndeavour was NASA's fifth and final space KEY ENDEAVOUR MISSIONS
E shuttle orbiter to join the fleet at Kennedy STS-49 Maiden Flight; Capture and redeploy
Space Center in Florida. Endeavour also is Intelsat VI
known inside the space agency by its designation STS-47 Spacelab mission J
Orbiter Vehicle-105, or OV-105. STS-54 Deploy TDRS-F
Construction of Endeavour began on STS-57 Retrieve European Retrievable Carrier
Sept. 28, 1987, and it rolled out of the assembly STS-61 First Hubble Space Telescope
plant in Palmdale, Calif., on April 1991. servicing mission
For the first time, a national competition
STS-72 Retrieve Japanese Space Flyer Unit
involving students in elementary and secondary
STS-89 Rendezvous with Mir space station
schools produced the name of the new
STS-88 International Space Station
orbiter.
After receiving 6,154 entries, assembly mission, which assembled the
representing more than 70,000 students, Unity module, the first U.S. component of
NASA chose Endeavour and it was the station
announced by President George Bush STS-100 International Space
in 1989. The name comes from Station assembly mission, which
NASAfacts
a ship chartered to traverse delivered the Canadarm2 robotic
the South Pacific in 1768 and arm and hand
captained by 18th century STS-123 International Space
British explorer James Cook, Station assembly mission, which
an experienced seaman, delivered the first element of
navigator and amateur Japan's Kibo module along with
astronomer. the Canadian Special Purpose
Endeavour first launched Dexterous Manipulator robotic
May 7, 1992, on the STS-49 arm (Dextre)
mission to capture the INTELSAT
THE NUMBERS
VI communications satellite and
(Prior to STS-134)
re-release it into a geosynchronous
Total miles traveled:
orbit.
In 1993, Endeavour 116,372,930
embarked on STS-61, the first Total time in space: 283
servicing mission to NASA's Total orbits: 4,423
Hubble Space Telescope. Total flights: 24
Endeavour, on its final Total crew members: 167
mission, STS-134, is scheduled Mir dockings: 1
to liftoff May 16, 2011. It will be International Space Station
the second space shuttle retired visits: 11
from NASA's fleet.