AUGUST 2009 CONTENTS i
CONTENTS
Section PageSTS-128 MISSION OVERVIEW ................................................................................................ 1
TIMELINE OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 11
MISSION PROFILE ................................................................................................................... 13
MISSION OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................ 15
MISSION PERSONNEL ............................................................................................................. 19
STS-128 DISCOVERY CREW ................................................................................................... 21
PAYLOAD OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 31
LEONARDO MULTI-PURPOSE LOGISTICS MODULE (MPLM) FLIGHT MODULE 1 (FM1) ........................... 33
COMBINED OPERATIONAL LOAD BEARING EXTERNAL RESISTANCE TREADMILL (COLBERT) ................ 40
THE LIGHTWEIGHT MULTI-PURPOSE EXPERIMENT SUPPORT STRUCTURE CARRIER (LMC) ................ 45
RENDEZVOUS & DOCKING ....................................................................................................... 49
SPACEWALKS ......................................................................................................................... 53
EXPERIMENTS ......................................................................................................................... 59
DETAILED TEST OBJECTIVES AND DETAILED SUPPLEMENTARY OBJECTIVES ....................................... 59
SHORT-DURATION RESEARCH AND STATION EXPERIMENTS ............................................................... 64
SHUTTLE REFERENCE DATA .................................................................................................... 73
LAUNCH AND LANDING ........................................................................................................... 91
LAUNCH ............................................................................................................................................... 91
ABORT-TO-ORBIT (ATO) ...................................................................................................................... 91
TRANSATLANTIC ABORT LANDING (TAL) ............................................................................................. 91
RETURN-TO-LAUNCH-SITE (RTLS) ....................................................................................................... 91
ABORT ONCE AROUND (AOA) ............................................................................................................... 91
LANDING ............................................................................................................................................. 91