STS-100

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STS-100
Organization NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States)
Mission type Engineering,Human Crew
Launch date April 19, 2001 (2001-04-19)
Launch vehicle Space Shuttle
Launch site Cape Canaveral, United States
COSPAR ID 2001-016A
Inclination 51.6 degrees
Experiments Here
Alternate Names 26747
Additional Information Here
Data Collection Here
Payload Mass Up 13368.27 kg
Payload Mass Down 9248.18 kg
Orbiter Endeavour
Lift Off Mass 2,055,566.36 kg
Orbiter Weight at Liftoff 120,576.36 kg
Orbiter Weight at Landing 100,056.82 kg
Landed Concrete runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Orbits of Earth 186
Orbital Altitude 240 nautical miles


Contents

Crew

  • Commander: Kent V. Rominger
  • Pilot: Jeffrey S. Ashby
    • Payload Commander:
    • Mission Specialist 1: Chris A. Hadfield, Canadian Space Agency
    • Mission Specialist 2: John L. Phillips
    • Mission Specialist 3: Scott E. Parazynski
    • Mission Specialist 4: Umberto Guidoni, European Space Agency
    • Mission Specialist 5: Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov, Russian Air Force
    • Payload Specialist 1:
    • Payload Specialist 2:


ISS/Mir Crew Transport


Mission

STS 100 is an American shuttle spacecraft that was launched from Cape Canaveral at 18:41 UT on 19 April 2001 to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). It carried a crew of four Americans, one Russian, one Canadian and one Italian. The main mission was to install an 18 meter, 1,700 kg Canadian robotic arm named Canadarm-2 on the ISS, and to transport an Italian cargo container, Raffaello which delivered 4,500 kg of supplies and equipment to the station. It docked with the ISS at 13:59 UT on 21 April. The robotic arm was hooked to the ISS with the help of the shuttle's own 16 meter arm and two of the crew members. The seven-joint arm was not permanently bolted to the ISS, and will crawl along the exterior walls under computer control, temporarily anchoring wherever needed. There was a sequential failure of the three onboard computers on the ISS, but after four days of effort a backup computer was activated fairly enough to enable the Canadarm-2 to hand over its own packing crate to the shuttle arm. STS 100 undocked from the ISS on 29 April after retrieving Raffello, and landed at Edwards AFB in California on 01 May.


EVA

Extravehicular Activity (EVA) conducted by Scott Parazynski and Chris Hadfield during two space-walks for a total of 14 hours, 50 minutes. EVA 1, 7 hours, 10 minutes; Parazynski and Hadfield installed and deployed the UHF antenna on Destiny and began installation of Canadarm2. EVA 2, 7 hours, 40 minutes; Parazynski and Hadfield completed power and data connections on Canadarm2.


Payload

ISS Assembly Flight 6A; Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module; Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), also known as Canadarm2; UHF antenna


Mission patch:

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