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Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-112

STS-112

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Launch Details

Date: 7 Oct 2002, 07:45 pm UTC

Rocket: Space Shuttle

Provider: United Space Alliance

Mission

Type: Human Exploration

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission Description

STS-112 (ISS assembly flight 9A) was an 11-day space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to deliver the 28,000 pound Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment to the Space Station. Ending a 4.5-million-mile journey, Atlantis landed at 15:44 UTC on 18 October 2002 on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility.