Space Shuttle Discovery flew STS-119, delivering the S6 truss segment and fourth and final set of solar arrays to the ISS, completing the station's truss structure and bringing it to full power; JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata joined the resident crew.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 32.1 T
- Flight
- 125th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 15 March 2009, 23:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2009-012
- Launches in 2009
- 13th of 78
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