STS-112
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| Organization | NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States) |
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| Mission type | Human Crew |
| Launch date | October 7, 2002 |
| Launch vehicle | Space Shuttle |
| Launch site | Cape Canaveral, United States |
| COSPAR ID | 2002-047A |
| Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
| Experiments | Here |
| Alternate Names | 27537 |
| Additional Information | Here |
| Data Collection | Here |
| Payload Mass Up | 13381.88 kg |
| Payload Mass Down | 787.73 kg |
| Orbiter | Atlantis |
| Lift Off Mass | 2,055,142.73 kg |
| Orbiter Weight at Liftoff | 120,823.64 kg |
| Orbiter Weight at Landing | 91,499.55 kg |
| Landed | 11:44:35 a.m. EDT, concrete runway 33, Kennedy Space Center, Fla. |
| Orbits of Earth | 170 |
| Orbital Altitude | 210 nautical miles |
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Crew
- Commander: Jeffrey S. Ashby
- Pilot: Pamela A. Melroy
- Mission Specialist 1: David A. Wolf
- Mission Specialist 2: Piers J. Sellers
- Mission Specialist 3: Sandra H. Magnus
- Mission Specialist 4: Fyodor N. Yurchikhin, Russian Space Agency
Mission
STS 112 is an American shuttle spacecraft that was launched from Cape Canaveral at 19:46 UT on 7 October 2002. It carried a crew of five American and one Russian astronauts, and material to the International Space Station (ISS) to augment that facility. During the 11-day mission, the crew extended the truss system of the exterior rail line by a 14 m, 13 tonne girder. The crew also tested a manual cart on the rails; the cart named CETA (Crew and Equipment Transportation Aid) will enable mobility of crew and equipment during the installation phases. It landed back in Cape Canaveral at 15:43 UT on 18 October 2002 carrying back the same crew of six.
EVA
Extravehicular Activity (EVA) conducted by David Wolf and Piers Sellers from joint airlock "Quest" during three spacewalks for a total of 19 hours, 41 minutes EVA 1, 7 hours, 1 minute; after the S1 truss was lifted from Atlantis's cargo bay by the Canadarm2, operated by ISS crew member Peggy Whitson, and attached to the S0 truss, Wolf and Sellers attached power, data, and fluid lines between the S1 and S0, deployed the station's second S-band communications system, and installed the first of two external camera systems. EVA 2, 6 hours, 4 minutes; Wolf and Sellers set up a second camera system, released restraints on the CETA cart, and attached ammonia tank assembly cables. EVA 3, 6 hours, 36 minutes; Wolf and Sellers removed and replaced the Interface Umbilical Assembly on the station's Mobile Transporter and installed jumpers and spool positioning devices on the ammonia lines between the S1 and S0 trusses.
Payload
ISS Assembly Flight 9A; 14-ton Starboard-One (S1) truss structure preintegrated with a standard Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) transponder, Audio Communication System (ACS) baseband signal processor, S-band communication equipment, Thermal Radiator Rotary Joint (TRRJ), three External Active Thermal Control System (EATCS) radiators, Direct Current (DC)-to-DC Converter Unit (DDCU), Remote Power Controller Module (RPCM), and Crew Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) cart; secondary payloads of Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER) and Ram Burn Observation (RAMBO); first use of Shuttle Observation Camera System mounted to external tank
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