STS-118

**STS-118**
Organization	NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States)
Mission type	Resupply/Refurbishment/Repair
Launch date	August 8, 2007
Launch vehicle	Space Shuttle
Launch site	Cape Canaveral, United States
COSPAR ID	2007-035A
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Experiments	Here
Alternate Names	32008
Additional Information	Here
Data Collection	Here
Payload Mass Up	10840.4 kg
Payload Mass Down	5629.55 kg
Orbiter	Endeavour
Lift Off Mass	2,054,896.82 kg
Orbiter Weight at Liftoff	122,079.09 kg
Orbiter Weight at Landing	101,090.00 kg
Landed	12:33 p.m. EDT, concrete runway 15, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Orbits of Earth	202
Orbital Altitude	Approximately 184 nautical miles

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[edit] Crew

Commander: Scott J. Kelly
Pilot: Charles O. Hobaugh
- Payload Commander:
- Mission Specialist 1: Dafydd (Dave) R. Williams, Canadian Space Agency
- Mission Specialist 2: Barbara R. Morgan
- Mission Specialist 3: Richard A. Mastracchio
- Mission Specialist 4: Tracy E. Caldwell
- Mission Specialist 5: Benjamin Alvin Drew
- Payload Specialist 1:
- Payload Specialist 2:

ISS/Mir Crew Transport

[edit] Mission

STS 118 is an American shuttle craft that was launched at 22:37 UT on 08 August 2007 from Cape Canaveral. It carried seven astronauts (six American and one Canadian) to the International Space Station (ISS) and docked with the ISS at 17:53 UT on 10 August 2007. The astronauts made three spacewalks to install a 1.6 tonne truss that extends the station, to replace a defective gyroscope, and to install a 3.1 tonne external equipment storage platform. They also delivered 2.7 tonnes of food, fuel, and equipment. (A fourth spacewalk was considered, but not executed, to repair a deep 9 cm2 gouge in the shuttle's heat tiles, that was caused by an insulation piece from the external fuel tank during launch.) The shuttle, with all the astronauts, returned to Cape Canaveral at 16:32 UT on 21 August 2007.

[edit] EVA

Extravehicular Activity (EVA) conducted by Richard Mastracchio, Dave Williams, and Clayton Anderson during four spacewalks for a total of 23 hours, 15 minutes. EVA 1, 6 hours, 17 minutes; Mastracchio and Williams attached the S5 segment of the station's truss and continued preparations to relocate the P6 truss. EVA 2, 6 hours, 28 minutes; Mastracchio and Williams replaced a faulty Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG), restoring the full four-CMG capability to help maintain ISS orientation. EVA 3, 5 hours, 28 minutes; Mastracchio and Anderson prepared the ISS for the next step in solar array deployment and voice communications system upgrades. The spacewalk ended early because of a perceived tear in Mastracchio's glove. EVA 4, 5 hours, 2 minutes; Williams and Anderson installed an External Wireless Instrumentation System antenna, installed a stand for the space shuttle's robotic arm extension boom, and retrieved two containers of the Materials ISS Experiment.