STS-131

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• Launch date 5 April 2010, 10:21:22 UTC[5][6] Launch site Kennedy LC-39A End of mission Landing date 20 April 2010, 13:08:35 UTC Landing site Kennedy SLF Runway 15

TIME AND DISTANCE

• The space shuttle mission took 15 days 2 hours, 47 min, 11 seconds
• 10,029,810 kilometres (6,232,235 mi)

MASS

• Launch mass2,051,031 kilograms 4,521,749 lb(total) 121,047 kilograms 266,864 lb (orbiter)
• Landing mass 102,039 kilograms (224,957 lb)

CREW

• 7 members
• Alan Poindexter James Dutton Richard Mastracchio Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger Stephanie Wilson Naoko Yamazaki Clayton Anderson

MISSION

• The primary payload was a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module loaded with supplies and equipment for the International Space Station. The mission also removed and replaced an ammonia tank assembly outside the station on the S1 truss. STS-131 furthermore carried several on-board payloads; this mission had the most payloads since STS-107.

FACTS

• 162nd NASA manned space flight
• 131st shuttle mission since STS-1
• 38th flight of Discovery
• 33rd shuttle mission to the ISS
• 106th post-Challenger mission
• 18th post-Columbia mission
• 35th and last night launch of a shuttle, 22nd night launch from launch pad 39A
• 2nd "descending node" entry since 2003

FACTS

• This was the final Space Shuttle mission with a seven person crew.
• It was the final Space Shuttle crew with any "rookie" astronauts; all of the remaining missions would have all-veteran crews.
• STS-131 was the third and last mission in the Space Shuttle program with three female astronauts. STS-40 and STS-96 were the first two.
• Expedition 23 Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson was on the ISS at the time. This made STS-131 it the first time four women have been in space at once.

FACTS

• STS-131 marked the first time two Japanese astronauts, Naoko Yamazaki from the shuttle crew and Soichi Noguchi on the ISS, were in space together.
• Expedition 23 Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson was on the ISS at the time. This made STS-131 it the first time four women have been in space at once.
• Naoko Yamazaki was the last Japanese astronaut to fly on the space shuttle.

FACTS

• Expedition 23 Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson was on the ISS at the time. This made STS-131 it the first time four women have been in space at once.[12]