Portal:Spaceflight/Selected article/Week 12 2008

STS-120 was a 6.25 million mile space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), that launched on 23 October 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It delivered the Harmony module and reconfigured a portion of the station in preparation for future assembly missions. STS-120 was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and was the twenty-third space shuttle mission to the ISS. The completion of the mission leaves eleven flights remaining in the Space Shuttle programme until its end in 2010, excluding two as-yet-unconfirmed Contingency Logistic Flights.

Its crew consisted of Mission Commander Pamela Melroy, Pilot George D. Zamka, and mission specialists Scott E. Parazynski, Stephanie Wilson, Douglas H. Wheelock and Paolo A. Nespoli. ISS Expedition 16 crewmember Daniel M. Tani was also aboard for launch, remaining on the station in place of Clayton Anderson, who landed aboard the Shuttle.

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