STS-118

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STS-118
Organization NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States)
Mission type Resupply/Refurbishment/Repair
Launch date August 8, 2007 (2007-08-08)
Launch vehicle Space Shuttle
Launch site Cape Canaveral, United States
COSPAR ID 2007-035A
Experiments Here
Alternate Names 32008
Additional Information Here
Data Collection Here
Payload Mass Up 10840.40 kg


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.


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