Timeline of space shuttle missions

## Contents

* 1 Post-Columbia timeline
* 2 Complete timeline
* 3 See also

## Post-Columbia timeline

<timeline>

1. All measures are in pixels

ImageSize = width:320 height:600 PlotArea = left:50 right:50 bottom:20 top:10 AlignBars = justify

DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:2005 till:2011 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:2005 ScaleMinor = increment:6 unit:month start:2005

1. there is no automatic collision detection,
2. so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap

Define $dx = 20 # shift text to right side of bar

BarData=

bar:Discovery text: Discovery
bar:Atlantis text: Atlantis
bar:Endeavour text: Endeavour

Colors=

id:NASA value:blue legend:NASA
id:Current value:rgb(0.5,1,0.5) legend:Current

Plotdata=

1. Atlantis

bar: Atlantis color:NASA
from:09/09/2006 till:20/09/2006 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-115
from:08/06/2007 till:22/06/2007 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-117
from:07/02/2008 till:20/02/2008 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-122
from:11/05/2009 till:24/05/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-125
from:16/11/2009 till:27/11/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-129
from:14/05/2010 till:26/05/2010 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-132
from:16/11/2009 till:27/11/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-129
from:08/07/2011 till:21/07/2011 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-135

1. Discovery

bar: Discovery color:NASA
from:26/07/2005 till:08/08/2005 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-114
from:04/07/2006 till:16/07/2006 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-121
from:09/12/2006 till:21/12/2006 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-116
from:23/10/2007 till:07/11/2007 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-120
from:31/05/2008 till:14/06/2008 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-124
from:15/03/2009 till:28/03/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-119
from:29/08/2009 till:11/09/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-128
from:05/04/2010 till:20/04/2010 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-131
from:24/02/2011 till:09/03/2011 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-133

1. Endeavour

bar: Endeavour color:NASA
from:08/08/2007 till:21/08/2007 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-118
from:11/03/2008 till:26/03/2008 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-123
from:14/11/2008 till:30/11/2008 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-126
from:15/07/2009 till:31/07/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-127
from:08/02/2010 till:21/02/2010 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-130
from:16/05/2011 till:01/06/2011 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-134

</timeline>

## Complete timeline

<timeline>

1. All measures are in pixels

ImageSize = width:650 height:1650 PlotArea = left:50 right:50 bottom:20 top:10 AlignBars = justify

DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:1975 till:2011 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1975

1. there is no automatic collision detection,
2. so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap

Define $dx = 20 # shift text to right side of bar

BarData=

bar:Enterprise text: Enterprise
bar:Columbia text: Columbia
bar:Challenger text: Challenger
bar:Discovery text: Discovery
bar:Atlantis text: Atlantis
bar:Endeavour text: Endeavour

Colors=

id:NASAtest value:rgb(0.5,0.5,0.5) legend: NASA_test_flight
id:NASA value:blue legend:NASA
id:USSR value:red legend:USSR
id:Current value:rgb(0.5,1,0.5) legend:Current

Plotdata =

1. Atlantis

bar: Atlantis color:NASA
from:03/10/1985 till:07/10/1985 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-51-J
from:26/11/1985 till:02/12/1985 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-61-B
from:02/12/1988 till:06/12/1988 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-27
from:04/05/1989 till:08/05/1989 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-30
from:18/10/1989 till:22/10/1989 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-34
from:28/02/1990 till:04/03/1990 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-36
from:15/11/1990 till:19/11/1990 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-38
from:05/04/1991 till:10/04/1991 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-37
from:02/08/1991 till:10/08/1991 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-43
from:24/11/1991 till:30/11/1991 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-44
from:24/03/1992 till:01/04/1992 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-45
from:31/07/1992 till:07/08/1992 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-46
from:03/11/1994 till:13/11/1994 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-66
from:27/06/1995 till:06/07/1995 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-71
from:12/11/1995 till:20/11/1995 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-74
from:22/03/1996 till:31/03/1996 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-76
from:16/09/1996 till:26/09/1996 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-79
from:12/01/1997 till:22/01/1997 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-81
from:15/05/1997 till:24/05/1997 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-84
from:25/09/1997 till:05/10/1997 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-86
from:19/05/2000 till:28/05/2000 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-101
from:08/09/2000 till:19/09/2000 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-106
from:07/02/2001 till:19/02/2001 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-98
from:12/07/2001 till:24/07/2001 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-104
from:08/04/2002 till:18/04/2002 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-110
from:07/10/2002 till:17/10/2002 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-112
from:09/09/2006 till:20/09/2006 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-115
from:08/06/2007 till:22/06/2007 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-117
from:07/02/2008 till:20/02/2008 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-122
from:11/05/2009 till:24/05/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-125
from:16/11/2009 till:27/11/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-129
from:08/07/2011 till:21/07/2011 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-135

1. Challenger

bar: Challenger color:NASA
from:04/04/1983 till:09/04/1983 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-6
from:18/06/1983 till:24/06/1983 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-7
from:30/08/1983 till:05/09/1983 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-8
from:03/02/1984 till:10/02/1984 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-41-B
from:06/04/1984 till:12/04/1984 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-41-C
from:05/10/1984 till:13/10/1984 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-41-G
from:29/04/1985 till:06/05/1985 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-51-B
from:29/07/1985 till:05/08/1985 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-51-F
from:30/10/1985 till:06/11/1985 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-61-A
from:28/01/1986 till:28/01/1986 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-51-L_(lost)
at:28/01/1986  mark:(line,red)

1. Columbia

bar: Columbia color:NASA
from:12/04/1981 till:14/04/1981 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-1
from:12/11/1981 till:14/11/1981 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-2
from:22/03/1982 till:30/03/1982 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-3
from:27/06/1982 till:04/07/1982 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-4
from:11/11/1982 till:16/11/1982 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-5
from:28/11/1983 till:08/12/1983 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-9
from:12/01/1986 till:18/01/1986 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-61-C
from:08/08/1989 till:13/08/1989 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-28
from:09/01/1990 till:19/01/1990 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-32
from:02/12/1990 till:10/12/1990 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-35
from:05/06/1991 till:14/06/1991 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-40
from:25/06/1992 till:08/07/1992 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-50
from:22/10/1992 till:31/10/1992 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-52
from:26/04/1993 till:05/05/1993 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-55
from:18/10/1993 till:01/11/1993 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-58
from:04/03/1994 till:17/03/1994 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-62
from:08/07/1994 till:22/07/1994 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-65
from:20/10/1995 till:04/11/1995 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-73
from:22/02/1996 till:08/03/1996 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-75
from:20/06/1996 till:06/07/1996 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-78
from:19/11/1996 till:06/12/1996 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-80
from:04/04/1997 till:07/04/1997 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-83
from:01/07/1997 till:16/07/1997 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-94
from:19/11/1997 till:04/12/1997 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-87
from:17/04/1998 till:02/05/1998 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-90
from:23/07/1999 till:27/07/1999 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-93
from:01/03/2002 till:11/03/2002 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-109
from:16/01/2003 till:31/01/2003 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-107_(lost)
at:31/01/2003 mark:(line,red)

1. Discovery

bar: Discovery color:NASA
from:30/08/1984 till:05/09/1984 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-41-D
from:08/11/1984 till:15/11/1984 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-51-A
from:24/01/1985 till:27/01/1985 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-51-C
from:12/04/1985 till:18/04/1985 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-51-D
from:17/06/1985 till:24/06/1985 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-51-G
from:27/08/1985 till:03/09/1985 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-51-I
from:29/09/1988 till:03/10/1988 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-26
from:13/03/1989 till:17/03/1989 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-29
from:22/11/1989 till:27/11/1989 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-33
from:24/04/1990 till:29/04/1990 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-31
from:06/10/1990 till:10/10/1990 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-41
from:28/04/1991 till:06/05/1991 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-39
from:12/09/1991 till:17/09/1991 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-48
from:22/01/1992 till:30/01/1992 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-42
from:02/12/1992 till:09/12/1992 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-53
from:08/04/1993 till:17/04/1993 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-56
from:12/09/1993 till:21/09/1993 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-51
from:03/02/1994 till:10/02/1994 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-60
from:09/09/1994 till:19/09/1994 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-64
from:03/02/1995 till:11/02/1995 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-63
from:13/07/1995 till:21/07/1995 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-70
from:11/02/1997 till:20/02/1997 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-82
from:07/08/1997 till:18/08/1997 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-85
from:02/06/1998 till:11/06/1998 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-91
from:29/10/1998 till:06/11/1998 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-95
from:27/05/1999 till:05/06/1999 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-96
from:19/12/1999 till:26/12/1999 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-103
from:11/10/2000 till:23/10/2000 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-92
from:08/03/2001 till:20/03/2001 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-102
from:10/08/2001 till:21/08/2001 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-105
from:26/07/2005 till:08/08/2005 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-114
from:04/07/2006 till:16/07/2006 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-121
from:09/12/2006 till:21/12/2006 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-116
from:23/10/2007 till:07/11/2007 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-120
from:31/05/2008 till:14/06/2008 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-124
from:15/03/2009 till:28/03/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-119
from:29/08/2009 till:11/09/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-128
from:05/04/2010 till:20/04/2010 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-131
from:24/02/2011 till:09/03/2011 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-133

1. Endeavour

bar: Endeavour color:NASA
from:07/05/1992 till:15/05/1992 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-49
from:12/09/1992 till:19/09/1992 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-47
from:13/01/1993 till:18/01/1993 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-54
from:21/06/1993 till:30/06/1993 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-57
from:02/12/1993 till:12/12/1993 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-61
from:09/04/1994 till:20/04/1994 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-59
from:30/09/1994 till:11/10/1994 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-68
from:02/03/1995 till:18/03/1995 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-67
from:07/09/1995 till:17/09/1995 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-69
from:11/01/1996 till:19/01/1996 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-72
from:19/05/1996 till:29/05/1996 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-77
from:22/01/1998 till:30/01/1998 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-89
from:04/12/1998 till:15/12/1998 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-88
from:11/02/2000 till:22/02/2000 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-99
from:30/11/2000 till:10/12/2000 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-97
from:19/04/2001 till:30/04/2001 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-100
from:05/12/2001 till:16/12/2001 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-108
from:05/06/2002 till:18/06/2002 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-111
from:23/11/2002 till:06/12/2002 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-113
from:08/08/2007 till:21/08/2007 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-118
from:11/03/2008 till:26/03/2008 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-123
from:14/11/2008 till:30/11/2008 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-126
from:15/07/2009 till:31/07/2009 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-127
from:08/02/2010 till:21/02/2010 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-130
from:16/05/2011 till:01/06/2011 shift:($dx,0)  text:STS-134

1. Enterprise

bar: Enterprise color:NASAtest
from:12/08/1977 till:12/08/1977 shift:($dx,0)  text:ALT-12
from:13/09/1977 till:13/09/1977 shift:($dx,0)  text:ALT-13
from:23/09/1977 till:23/09/1977 shift:($dx,0)  text:ALT-14
from:12/10/1977 till:12/10/1977 shift:($dx,0)  text:ALT-15
from:26/10/1977 till:26/10/1977 shift:($dx,0)  text:ALT-16

</timeline>

## See also

* v
* t
* e

Space Shuttle program

* Space Shuttle
* List of missions
* List of crews

Components|

* Space Shuttle orbiter
* Solid Rocket Booster
* External Tank
* Main Engine
* Orbital Maneuvering System
* Reaction control system
* Thermal protection system
* Booster separation motor

Orbiters|

* Enterprise
* Columbia
* Challenger
* Discovery
* Atlantis
* Endeavour

Add-ons|

* Spacelab (ESA)
* Canadarm (CSA)
* Extended Duration Orbiter
* Remote Controlled Orbiter
* Spacehab
* Multi-Purpose Logistics Module

Sites|

* Kennedy Space Center LC-39
* Vandenberg SLC-6
* Landing sites
* Shuttle Landing Facility
* Abort Landing Sites

Operations
and training|

* Missions (canceled)
* Crews
* Mission timeline
* Rollbacks
* Countdown
* Abort modes
* Rendezvous pitch maneuver
* Shuttle Mission Simulator
* Shuttle Training Aircraft

Testing|

* Inspiration (design)
* Pathfinder (simulator)
* MPTA (engine mounts)
* MPTA-ET (external tank)
* Approach and Landing Tests

Disasters|

* Challenger disaster (report)
* Columbia disaster (report)

Support|

* Crawler-transporter
* Mate-Demate Device
* Mobile Launcher Platform
* NASA recovery ship
* Orbiter Processing Facility
* Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL)
* Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
* flights
* Shuttle Training Aircraft
* STS-3xx

Special|

* Deutschland-1
* Getaway Special
* Teacher in Space Project
* Shuttle-Mir
* Hitchhiker

Space suits|

* Extravehicular Mobility Unit
* Shuttle Ejection Escape Suit
* Launch Entry Suit
* Advanced Crew Escape Suit

Experiments|

* Freestar experiments
* Inflatable Antenna Experiment
* Spartan Packet Radio Experiment
* Shuttle pallet satellite
* Wake Shield Facility

Derivatives|

* Saturn-Shuttle (canceled)
* Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle
* Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle
* Jupiter
* Shuttle-C
* Ares
* Space Launch System

Replicas|

* Independence

Related|

* Space Shuttle design process
* Inertial Upper Stage
* Payload Assist Module
* International Space Station
* Criticism
* Retirement
* Conroy Virtus
* The Dream Is Alive (1985 documentary)
* Space Shuttle America
* Rendezvous
* Space Shuttle Project
* Shuttle
* Space Shuttle
* Space Shuttle Mission 2007
* Orbiter simulator

* v
* t
* e

Spaceflight lists and timelines

* Timeline of spaceflight

General|

* Space exploration
* outline
* timeline
* Spaceflight records
* Space Race
* Asian Space Race
* Rocket and missile technology

Human spaceflight|

| General|

* Crewed spacecraft
* timeline
* Spaceflights
* 1961–1970
* 1971–1980
* 1981–1990
* 1991–2000
* 2001–2010
* 2011–present
* by program
* Soviet
* Russian
* Vostok
* Soyuz
* Mercury
* Gemini
* Apollo
* Skylab
* Shenzhou
* Gaganyaan
* Spacelab
* Artemis

|

Salyut|

* Expeditions
* Spaceflights
* crewed
* uncrewed
* Spacewalks
* Visitors

Mir|

* Expeditions
* Spaceflights
* crewed
* uncrewed
* Spacewalks
* Visitors

ISS|

* Expeditions
* Spaceflights
* crewed
* uncrewed
* Spacewalks
* Visitors
* Deployed

Shuttle|

* Crews
* Missions
* timeline
* Rollbacks

People|

* Astronauts
* by name
* by year of selection
* by first flight
* Apollo
* Gemini
* Chinese
* European
* Cosmonauts
* female
* Jewish
* Muslim
* Arab
* African-American
* Space travelers by name
* Space travelers by nationality
* timeline
* Dead astronauts

EVA|

* 1965–1999
* 2000–2014
* 2015–present
* Cumulative spacewalk records
* Longest spacewalks
* Spacewalkers

Solar System exploration|

* Timeline
* Interplanetary voyages
* Landings on other planets
* artificial objects
* Objects at Lagrangian points
* Probes
* active
* leaving the Solar System
* lunar probes
* Missions to the Moon
* Timeline of satellites
* Sample-return mission
* Mars

Earth-orbiting satellites|

* Climate research
* Communications satellite firsts
* CubeSats
* PocketQube
* Earth observation satellites
* timeline
* Geosynchronous orbit
* GOES
* Kosmos
* Magnetospheric
* NRO
* TDRS
* USA

Vehicles|

* Orbital launch systems
* Comparison
* Sounding rocket list
* Spacecraft
* uncrewed
* crewed
* Upper stages
* Sounding rocket
* Small-lift launch vehicle
* Medium-lift launch vehicle
* Heavy-lift launch vehicle
* Super heavy-lift launch vehicle

Launches by rocket type|

* Ariane
* Atlas
* Black Brant
* Electron
* Falcon 9 and Heavy
* H-I and H-II
* Long March
* Proton
* PSLV
* R-7 (including Semyorka, Molniya, Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz)
* Scout
* SLS
* Thor and Delta
* Titan
* Tsyklon
* V-2 tests
* Zenit

Launches by spaceport|

* Satish Dhawan

Agencies, companies
and facilities|

* Communications satellite companies
* comparison
* Private spaceflight companies
* Rocket launch sites
* Space agencies
* Spacecraft manufacturers

Other mission lists
and timelines|

* First orbital launches by country
* NASA missions
* Constellation missions
* Timeline of private spaceflight
* Timeline of longest spaceflights

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