STS-128, Space Shuttle Discovery's 37th flight and ISS assembly mission 17A, delivered the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module with over seven tons of supplies and science racks. Astronaut Nicole Stott joined the station crew, and three spacewalks were conducted during the 13-day mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 32.5 T
- Flight
- 128th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 2009, 03:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2009-045
- Launches in 2009
- 48th of 78
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