Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
United Space Alliance
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Human Exploration
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:37:55 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4780 ever
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.