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STS-126

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 15 Nov 2008, 12:55 am UTC

Rocket: Space Shuttle

Provider: United Space Alliance

Mission

Type: Human Exploration

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

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

Mission Description

STS-126 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. The purpose of the mission, referred to as ULF2 by the ISS program, was to deliver equipment and supplies to the station, to service the Solar Alpha Rotary Joints (SARJ), and repair the problem in the starboard SARJ that had limited its use since STS-120.