STS-129

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

19:28:10

Monday November 16, 2009

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

STS-129

Wiki

TS-129 (ISS assembly flight ULF3) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). STS-129 focused on staging spare components outside the station. The 11-day flight included three spacewalks. The payload bay carried two large ExPRESS Logistics Carriers holding two spare gyroscopes, two nitrogen tank assemblies, two pump modules, an ammonia tank assembly, a spare latching end effector for the station's robotic arm, a spare trailing umbilical system for the Mobile Transporter, and a high-pressure gas tank. STS-129 was the first flight of an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier.

Low Earth Orbit

16,027 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Space Shuttle Atlantis

Active 1985 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


129th

Mission

5th

Mission of 2009

2009


65th

Orbital launch attempt