STS-88

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

08:35:34

Friday December 4, 1998

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Launch Notes

STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

STS-88

Wiki

Node 1, named Unity, was the first space station hardware delivered by the space shuttle. It has two Pressurized Mating Adapters (PMA), one attached to either end. One PMA is permanently mated to Zarya, and the other is used for orbiter dockings and crew access to the station. Unity also contains an International Standard Payload Rack used to support on-orbit activities, which was activated after the fifth Shuttle/Station assembly flight.

Low Earth Orbit

Rocket

Retired
Space Shuttle Endeavour

Active 1992 to 2011

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo

Agency

NASA

Price

$450.00 million

Rocket

Height: 56.1m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 27,500 kg

GTO: 3,810 kg

Liftoff Thrust

30,250 Kilonewtons

Stages

2

Strap-ons

2

Launch Site

LC-39A

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

5 days 6 hours

Stats

Space Shuttle


93rd

Mission

5th

Mission of 1998

1998


74th

Orbital launch attempt