[STS-133] Discovery : Préparatifs (Lancement prévu le 24/02/2011)

NASA has assigned the crew for the last scheduled space shuttle mission, targeted to launch in September 2010. The flight to the International Space Station will carry a pressurized logistics module to the station.


Veteran shuttle commander and retired Air Force Col. Steven W. Lindsey will command the eight-day mission, designated STS-133. Air Force Col. Eric A. Boe will serve as the pilot; it will be his second flight as a shuttle pilot. Mission Specialists are shuttle mission veteran Air Force Col. Benjamin Alvin Drew, Jr., and long-duration spaceflight veterans Michael R. Barratt, Army Col. Timothy L. Kopra and Nicole P. Stott.

Lindsey will be making his fifth shuttle flight. He served as the pilot of STS-87 in 1997 and STS-95 in 1998, and commanded STS-104 in 2001 and STS-121 in 2006. Lindsey was born in Arcadia, Calif., and considers Temple City, Calif., to be his hometown. He has a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master's degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Lindsey currently is chief of the Astronaut Office. Long-duration spaceflight veteran and former space station commander Peggy A. Whitson has been named his successor when Lindsey transitions in October to training for his spaceflight. Whitson was a flight engineer aboard the station during Expedition 5 in 2002 and the commander of Expedition 16 in 2007 to 2008.

Boe will be making his second shuttle flight. He was the pilot of STS-126 in 2008. He was born in Miami and grew up in Atlanta. Boe has a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master's degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Drew flew as a mission specialist on STS-118 in 2007 and is currently the director of Operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. He was born in Washington, D.C. Drew has two bachelor's degrees and a master's degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master's degree from Embry Riddle University.

Barratt, a medical doctor, currently is on his first mission, aboard the space station as a flight engineer for Expeditions 19 and 20. He launched to the station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft March 26 and is due to return to Earth on the same Soyuz Oct. 11. Barratt was born in Vancouver, Wash., and considers Camas, Wash., his hometown. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, a master's degree from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a doctorate of medicine from Northwestern University.

Kopra just completed his first spaceflight, as a flight engineer aboard the space station for Expedition 20. He launched July 15 on shuttle mission STS-127 and landed aboard shuttle mission STS-128 on Sept. 11. Kopra was born in Austin, Texas. He has a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Military Academy, and master's degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the U.S. Army War College.

Pierrot a écrit:trouvé au hasard sur internet, venant de NSF!

Pierrot a écrit:... Un vol STS-134 serait en pour parlés mais à ce jour aucune date officielle n’est retenu...

Fan de Ducrocq a écrit:

Pierrot a écrit:... Un vol STS-134 serait en pour parlés mais à ce jour aucune date officielle n’est retenu...

Désolé, pierrot, STS-134 est prévu avant STS-133 et décollera le 29 juillet 2010. La mission supplémentaire serait STS-135 mais, dans le contexte actuel, je ne crois pas que cette mission aura lieu.

DGFIP a écrit:La der des der STS 133 moins ...
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Aussi visible sur "30 ème anniversaire de la navette spatiale"
http://www.forum-conquete-spatiale.fr/usa-f8/30eme-anniversaire-de-la-navette-spatiale-t9903.htm

Steph a écrit:-> fusion des deux sujets

Doc a écrit:Je sais qu'il est un peu tôt de parler de ce lancement mais je me lance quand même car prévue pour le 16 septembre et étant la dernière (si je me trompe pas) qu'est-il prévue spécifiquement dans cette mission?