STS-102: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is a mission of the United States Space Shuttle

Space Shuttle program
Mission Insignia
Mission Statistics
Mission:	STS-102
Shuttle:	Discovery
Launch Pad:	39-B
Launch:	March 8, 2001, 6:42 a.m. EST
Landing:	March 21, 2001 at 2:33:06 am EST (7:33:06 GMT) KSC Runway 15.
Duration:	12 days, 19 hours, 51 minutes, 57 seconds.
Orbit Altitude:	122nm
Orbit Inclination:	51.6 degrees
Distance Traveled:	5.3 Million miles
Crew photo
Previous Mission: STS-98	Next Mission: STS-100

Crew

• James D. Wetherbee (5), Commander
• James M. Kelly (1), Pilot
• Andrew S. W. Thomas (3), Mission Specialist
• Paul Richards (1), Mission Specialist

Launched ISS Expedition 2 Crew

• Yury V. Usachev (4), (Russia) ISS Commander
• James S. Voss (5), ISS Flight Engineer
• Susan J. Helms (5), ISS Science Officer

Landed ISS Expedition 1 Crew

• William M. Shepherd (4), ISS Commander
• Yuri P. Gidzenko (2), (Russia) ISS Soyuz Cdr
• Sergei K. Krikalev (5), (Russia/RSA) ISS Flight Engineer

• Mass:
  • Orbiter Liftoff: 99,503 kg
  • Orbiter Landing: 90,043 kg
  • Payload: 5,760 kg
• Perigee: 370 km
• Apogee: 381 km
• Inclination: 51.5°
• Period: 92.1 min

Docking with ISS

• Docked: March 10, 2001, 06:38:00 UTC
• Undocked: March 19, 2001, 04:32:00 UTC
• Time Docked: 8 days, 21 h, 54 min, 00 s

Space walks

• Voss and Helms - EVA 1
• EVA 1 Start: March 11, 2001 - 05:12 UTC
• EVA 1 End: March 11, - 14:08 UTC
• Duration: 8 hours, 56 minutes

• Thomas and Richards - EVA 2
• EVA 2 Start: March 13, 2001 - 05:23 UTC
• EVA 2 End: March 13, - 11:44 UTC
• Duration: 6 hours, 21 minutes

STS-102 was the eighth shuttle mission to visit the International Space Station and served as a crew rotation flight. Space Shuttle Discovery delivered the Expedition Two crew to the station and returned the Expedition One crew to Earth. The primary cargo for the mission was the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), with six racks for the U.S.Destiny Laboratory Module, delivered and installed onto the station during STS-98. The STS-102 crew installed Leonardo onto the International Space Station in order to unload its contents and then return it to Earth.

There were also two EVAs ("spacewalks") conducted to complete assembly operations. Mission Objectives for the first spacewalk was for astronauts Susan Helms and Jim Voss to move the shuttle docking port to make room for the MPLM and attach the Lab Cradle Assembly to the top of the lab. The assembly was to be used on STS-100 when the Canadarm2 Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) was attached to the station. On the second spacewalk, astronauts Andy Thomas and Paul Richards attached a stowage platform and coolant pump to the outside of the Destiny module.

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