STS-121A

Mid-2004. (Cancelled flight). Other Name: ISS-9A.1. Crew: Chiao, Phillips, Sharipov. Program: ISS. Flight delayed after the Columbia disaster. No crew had been named at the time of the loss of Columbia. STS-121 was to have flown ISS Assembly mission ISS-9A.1, delivering the SPP with 4 Solar Arrays to the station. It would probably have returned ISS EO-9 crew (Padalka, Fincke, Kononenko) to earth and delivered the EO-10 crew (Chiao, John Phillips and Sharipov) to the station.

STS-121A Chronology

- Mid-2004 - STS-121 (cancelled) Crew: Chiao, Phillips, Sharipov. Spacecraft: Discovery.
Flight delayed after the Columbia disaster. No crew had been named at the time of the loss of Columbia. STS-121 was to have flown ISS Assembly mission ISS-9A.1, delivering the SPP with 4 Solar Arrays to the station, and have carried out a crew rotation.

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