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Upcoming ISS missions (originally announced in June 2006, updated April 18, 2007):
| Spacecraft |
Launch date |
|
Mission |
Payload |
Crew |
| STS-119 Endeavour |
Delayed from 2008 July |
- |
15A |
Fourth starboard truss segment (ITS S6)
Fourth set of solar arrays and batteries |
- |
| STS-125 Atlantis |
Delayed from 2008 September |
- |
HST-SM4 |
Fourth and last mission to service Hubble Space Telescope |
- |
| STS-126 Discovery |
2008 October |
- |
ULF2 |
Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) |
- |
| FGB-2/Proton |
2009-2010 (originally Oct. 2008) |
- |
3R |
Multipurpose Laboratory Module with European Robotic Arm (ERA) |
- |
| STS-127 Endeavour |
2009 January |
- |
2J/A |
Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility (JEM EF)
Kibo Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Exposed Section (ELM-ES)
Spacelab Pallet - Deployable 2 (SLP-D2) |
- |
| HTV/H-IIA |
2009 February |
- |
HTV-1 |
Japanese cargo supply craft |
- |
| STS-128 Discovery |
2009 April |
- |
17A |
Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM)
Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier (LMC)
Three crew quarters, galley, second treadmill (TVIS2), Crew Health Care System 2 (CHeCS 2) |
- |
| Six-person crew capability |
| STS-129 Endeavour |
2009 July |
- |
ULF3 |
EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 1 (ELC1)
EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 2 (ELC2) |
- |
| STS-130 Discovery |
2009 September |
- |
19A |
Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM)
Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier (LMC) |
- |
| STS-131 Endeavour |
2010 January |
- |
ULF4* |
EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 3 (ELC3)
EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 4 (ELC4) |
- |
| STS-132 Discovery |
2010 April |
- |
20A |
Node 3 with Cupola |
- |
| STS-133 Endeavour |
2010 July |
- |
ULF5* |
EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 5 (ELC5)
EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 1 (ELC1) |
- |
| ISS assembly complete |
| Proton |
after 2010 |
- |
9R |
Research module |
- |
* Two shuttle-equivalent flights for contingency
The final configuration of the International Space Station, as it was envisioned in October 2006.
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The ISS as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Discovery at the conlusion of the STS-116 mission on Dec. 19, 2006. A new P5 spacer truss segment was added and P6 solar array wing was retracted during the mission. Credit: NASA
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