launched from USA

STS-92

Success
OCT 11200023:17:00 UTC

The 100th flight of the Space Shuttle program, flown by Discovery to the International Space Station. The crew bolted on the Z1 truss, the station's first permanent exterior framework, and Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 across four spacewalks, setting up the attachment point for the first US solar arrays that the next assembly flight would deliver.

launched from LC-39A Kennedy

aboard Space Shuttle Discovery STS-92 into LEO

Payloads · 3

  • 01

    STS-92

    Space station module

  • 02

    Z-1 Truss

    Space station module

  • 03

    PMA-3

    Space station module

Crew · 7

  • 01 Brian Duffy from USA
  • 02 Pamela Melroy from USA
  • 03 Leroy Chiao from USA
  • 04 William S. McArthur from USA
  • 05 Peter Wisoff from USA
  • 06 Michael López-Alegría from USA
  • 07 Koichi Wakata from Japan

last updated Oct 11, 2026