Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission delivered the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module pressurized section, the ISS's largest module, along with its robotic arm, and swapped Expedition 17 crew member Greg Chamitoff in for Garrett Reisman, who returned to Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 33.3 T
- Flight
- 123rd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 31 May 2008, 21:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2008-027
- Launches in 2008
- 27th of 69
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