STS-122

Crew-portrait of STS-122

Crew of STS-122 posing at the Shuttle training facility

STS-122 crew pauses alongside the Astrovan to wave farewell to onlookers before heading for Launch Pad 39A on February 7, 2008.

Commander Stephan Frick

Pilot Alan G. Poindexter

Mission Specialist Leland D. Melvin

Mission Specialist Rex J. Walheim

Mission Specialist Hans Schlegel

Mission Specialist Stanley G. Love

Mission Specialist and ISS crewmember Leopold Eyharts

Returning ISS crewmember Daniel M. Tani

Colombus at Bremen airport

Columbus module to be launched on STS-122

The external experiments of Columbus mounted on their ICC-Lite payload rack

Columbus being lifted into the shuttle's payload canister.

ET-125 external tank being mated with SRBs

Atlantis is moved from OPF to the VAB.

Atlantis is lowered on the mobile launch platform

Atlantis is rolling out to Launch Pad 39A

Atlantis on it's way from the VAB.

Atlantis on Launch Pad 39A

At Launch Pad 39A, Columbus transferred from its payload canister into Atlantis

Atlantis on the morning of its first launch attempt

The time domain reflectometry (TDR) setup inside the Mobile Launcher Platform is prepared to be used for the tanking test.

The pin soldering of the replacement feed-through connector

The new feed-through connector

Low-Resolution NASA TV screen capture of STS-122 launch.

STS-122 launches on February 7, 2008

STS-122 Launch

Atlantis begins mission STS-122 to the International Space Station. Liftoff was on time at 2:45 p.m. EST. The mission will carry the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station.

Launch Video

Columbus in the payloadbay of Atlantis as it approaches the International Space Station

The interior of Columbus seen from starboard to port

The interior of Columbus seen from port to starboard

The STS-122 and Expedition 16 crewmembers gather for a photo in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station

Fly around closeup

Picture of ISS after STS-122

NASA TV image of the undocking maneuver

ISS floating above earth after STS-122 undocks

Astronaut Stanley Love

Astronaut Rex Walheim

Columbus laboratory

Stanley Love

Columbus laboratory

Columbus installed

Rex Walheim transfers the nitrogen tank assembly

Hans Schlegel and Rex Walheim participate in the mission's second scheduled session of extravehicular activity

Astronaut Hans Schlegel

In the darkness of space, astronauts participate in the mission's second scheduled session of extravehicular activity (EVA)

Hans Schlegel, close view

Hans Schlegel works on Columbus

Rex Walheim

Rex Walheim, close view

Rex Walheim installing a handrail on Columbus module

Rex Walheim uses a power tool while installing a handrail

Stanley Love works on the new Columbus laboratory's exterior

Atlantis landing

Atlantis touchdown

Atlantis touchdown

ISS after STS-122 (computer rendering of August 2006)

ISS after STS-122

ISS after STS-122

ISS after STS-122

diagram of ECO sensors that plagued the original launch attempt