Space Shuttle Discovery STS-119

Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-119 mission was the 28th shuttle flight to the International Space Station and delivered and assembled the fourth starboard Integrated Truss Segment (S6) and the fourth set of solar arrays and batteries to the station. STS-119 was launched on March 15, 2009 and landed on Earth on March 28, 2009 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is also known as International Space Station Assembly Flight 15A.

STS-119 was the 125th space shuttle flight, the 36th flight for the space shuttle Discovery and the 28th flight to the station. This was the first flight Space Shuttle launch of 2009.

The 13-day mission included three spacewalks, about 6-hours a piece, to install the S6 truss and enormous starboard-side solar arrays. They also unfurled the arrays and performed other get-ahead tasks.

Mission STS-119's crew of seven completed a successful mission aboard the International Space Station, increasing the orbiting laboratory's power capacity and giving it the ability to accommodate additional crew members in the future.

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* Members of the STS-119 crew were originally announced in 2002, but as a result of changes in the flight manifest, new crew assignments were necessary.

 * The next Space Shuttle Mission STS-125 will be the last service mission for the Hubble Space Telescope and will be the last non International Space Station flight.

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