STS-130
Tranquility and Cupola Complete a Major U.S. Assembly Phase
STS-130 delivered Tranquility and the seven-window Cupola, adding life-support volume, exercise and utility space, and the station's iconic panoramic robotics workstation.
Mission type
Crewed Space Shuttle assembly mission
Launch
February 8, 2010
Mission end / docking
February 21, 2010
Launch vehicle / spacecraft
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Objective
What this ISS mission set out to accomplish
Add the final major U.S. pressurized module, consolidate environmental and life-support equipment, and provide a panoramic windowed workstation for robotics and Earth observation.
This record treats STS-130 as an assembly or station-support mission rather than as a satellite engineering page, keeping the mission objective separate from the hardware-level ISS engineering record.
Flight and rendezvous
How the mission reached and worked at the station
STS-130 launched on February 8, 2010 using Space Shuttle Endeavour from Kennedy Space Center, Launch Pad 39A.
Endeavour carried Tranquility with Cupola attached for launch. Canadarm2 moved the node to the station, spacewalkers connected utilities, and crews relocated Cupola to its operational port on Tranquility.
Hardware and assembly
What was delivered, installed, or reconfigured
Primary hardware or assembly focus: Tranquility (Node 3) and Cupola.
Installation record: Tranquility installed February 12, 2010; Cupola moved to its operational location during the mission. This is the engineering connection between the mission story and the interactive International Space Station breakdown.
Outcome
What changed on the International Space Station
Tranquility expanded station living and utility space while Cupola became the primary visual robotics workstation and one of the station's defining observation areas.
The documented result makes STS-130 part of the larger ISS assembly chain, where individual missions progressively added structure, power, laboratories, robotics, thermal control, logistics, and crew-support systems.
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