STS-88, Space Shuttle Endeavour's mission, delivered the U.S.-built Unity node and mated it to the already-orbiting Russian Zarya module, beginning on-orbit assembly of the International Space Station. The six-person crew performed three spacewalks to connect the two modules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 28.3 T
- Flight
- 93rd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 4 December 1998, 08:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1998-069
- Launches in 1998
- 74th of 82
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