STS-122

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English: STS-122 is a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Atlantis, launched February 7, 2008.

NASA galleries for STS-122:

Crew[edit]

  • Crew-portrait of STS-122

  • Mission poster

  • 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

Before launch[edit]

  • 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

Launch[edit]

  • STS122 Atlantis.jpg

  • 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

In Orbit[edit]

  • 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

First spacewalk[edit]

  • Astronaut Stanley Love

  • Astronaut Rex Walheim

  • Columbus laboratory

  • Stanley Love

  • Columbus laboratory

  • Columbus installed

Second spacewalk[edit]

  • 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

Third spacewalk[edit]

  • 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

Landing[edit]

  • Atlantis landing

  • Atlantis touchdown

  • Atlantis touchdown

Others[edit]

  • 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

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