STS-109 Mission

Launch Service Provider

United Space Alliance

Vehicle

Space Shuttle

Crew

Scott Altman

Duane G. Carey

Mike Massimino

James H. Newman

Nancy J. Currie-Gregg

Richard M. Linnehan

John M. Grunsfeld

STS-109 (SM3B) was a Space Shuttle mission that launched from the Kennedy Space Center on 1 March 2002. It was the 108th mission of the Space Shuttle program, the 27th flight of the orbiter Columbia and the fourth servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. It was also the last successful mission of the orbiter Columbia before the ill-fated STS-107 mission, which culminated in the Columbia disaster.