Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-113

Mission Status

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Mission Details

STS-113 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. During the 14-day mission in late 2002, Endeavour and its crew extended the ISS backbone with the P1 truss and exchanged the Expedition 5 and Expedition 6 crews aboard the station. With Commander Jim Wetherbee and Pilot Paul Lockhart at the controls, Endeavour docked with the station on 25 November 2002 to begin seven days of station assembly, spacewalks and crew and equipment transfers. This was Endeavour’s last flight before entering its Orbiter Major Modification period until 2007, and also the last shuttle mission before the Columbia disaster.

Mission Type Human Exploration
Orbit Low Earth Orbit
Launch Window 12:49 AM - 12:49 AM

Rocket Configuration

Name Space Shuttle
Manufacturer National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Height 56.1 m
Diameter 8 m
Maiden Flight 1981-04-12
Success Rate 133/135 (99%)

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.