launched fromUSA

STS-98

Name: STS-98
Start: 2001-02-07T23:13:00Z
Location: Kennedy

Success

FEB 07200123:13:00 UTC

Atlantis delivered Destiny, the US laboratory module and centerpiece of the station's research capability, berthing the 16-ton lab to the Unity node over three spacewalks and enlarging the ISS pressurized volume by more than 40 percent.

LIFTOFF

FEB 07 2001

23:13:00 UTC

Success

launched fromLC-39AKennedy

aboardSpace Shuttle AtlantisintoLEO

Payloads · 2

01
STS-98
ISS assembly
02
Destiny
ISS component

Crew · 5

01Kenneth D. CockrellfromUSA
02Mark L. PolanskyfromUSA
03Robert L. Curbeam Jr.fromUSA
04Marsha S. IvinsfromUSA
05Thomas D. JonesfromUSA