STS-118
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| Organization | NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States) |
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| Mission type | Resupply/Refurbishment/Repair |
| Launch date | August 8, 2007 |
| Launch vehicle | Space Shuttle |
| Launch site | Cape Canaveral, United States |
| COSPAR ID | 2007-035A |
| Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
| Experiments | Here |
| Alternate Names | 32008 |
| Additional Information | Here |
| Data Collection | Here |
| Payload Mass Up | 10840.4 kg |
| Payload Mass Down | 5629.55 kg |
| Orbiter | Endeavour |
| Lift Off Mass | 2,054,896.82 kg |
| Orbiter Weight at Liftoff | 122,079.09 kg |
| Orbiter Weight at Landing | 101,090.00 kg |
| Landed | 12:33 p.m. EDT, concrete runway 15, Kennedy Space Center, Fla. |
| Orbits of Earth | 202 |
| Orbital Altitude | Approximately 184 nautical miles |
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Crew
- Commander: Scott J. Kelly
- Pilot: Charles O. Hobaugh
- Payload Commander:
- Mission Specialist 1: Dafydd (Dave) R. Williams, Canadian Space Agency
- Mission Specialist 2: Barbara R. Morgan
- Mission Specialist 3: Richard A. Mastracchio
- Mission Specialist 4: Tracy E. Caldwell
- Mission Specialist 5: Benjamin Alvin Drew
- Payload Specialist 1:
- Payload Specialist 2:
ISS/Mir Crew Transport
Mission
STS 118 is an American shuttle craft that was launched at 22:37 UT on 08 August 2007 from Cape Canaveral. It carried seven astronauts (six American and one Canadian) to the International Space Station (ISS) and docked with the ISS at 17:53 UT on 10 August 2007. The astronauts made three spacewalks to install a 1.6 tonne truss that extends the station, to replace a defective gyroscope, and to install a 3.1 tonne external equipment storage platform. They also delivered 2.7 tonnes of food, fuel, and equipment. (A fourth spacewalk was considered, but not executed, to repair a deep 9 cm2 gouge in the shuttle's heat tiles, that was caused by an insulation piece from the external fuel tank during launch.) The shuttle, with all the astronauts, returned to Cape Canaveral at 16:32 UT on 21 August 2007.
EVA
Extravehicular Activity (EVA) conducted by Richard Mastracchio, Dave Williams, and Clayton Anderson during four spacewalks for a total of 23 hours, 15 minutes. EVA 1, 6 hours, 17 minutes; Mastracchio and Williams attached the S5 segment of the station's truss and continued preparations to relocate the P6 truss. EVA 2, 6 hours, 28 minutes; Mastracchio and Williams replaced a faulty Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG), restoring the full four-CMG capability to help maintain ISS orientation. EVA 3, 5 hours, 28 minutes; Mastracchio and Anderson prepared the ISS for the next step in solar array deployment and voice communications system upgrades. The spacewalk ended early because of a perceived tear in Mastracchio's glove. EVA 4, 5 hours, 2 minutes; Williams and Anderson installed an External Wireless Instrumentation System antenna, installed a stand for the space shuttle's robotic arm extension boom, and retrieved two containers of the Materials ISS Experiment.
Payload
ISS Assembly Flight 13A.1; ITS S5, third starboard truss segment; External Stowage Platform 3 (ESP-3); SPACEHAB single cargo module
Mission patch: 
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