Space Shuttle Atlantis flew the STS-106 mission to outfit the newly arrived Zvezda and Zarya modules of the International Space Station ahead of its first crew, delivering supplies and a spacewalk to connect power and data cables between the modules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 24.8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 99th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 8 September 2000, 12:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2000-053
- Launches in 2000
- 55th of 85
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