Space Shuttle Discovery flew STS-121, the first human spaceflight ever launched on Independence Day, testing post-Columbia safety and repair techniques while delivering supplies and ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter to the International Space Station.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 26.2 T
- Flight
- 115th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 4 July 2006, 18:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2006-028
- Launches in 2006
- 29th of 66
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