STS-98

**STS-98**
Organization	NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States)
Mission type	Engineering,Human Crew
Launch date	February 7, 2001
Launch vehicle	Space Shuttle
Launch site	Cape Canaveral, United States
COSPAR ID	2001-006A
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Experiments	Here
Alternate Names	26698
Additional Information	Here
Data Collection	Here
Payload Mass Up	15098.27 kg
Payload Mass Down	1215 kg
Orbiter	Atlantis
Lift Off Mass	2,045,454.55 kg
Orbiter Weight at Liftoff	120,057.73 kg
Orbiter Weight at Landing	90,385.91 kg
Landed	Concrete runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Orbits of Earth	203
Orbital Altitude	Approximately 200 nautical miles

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[edit] Crew

Commander: Kenneth D. Cockrell
Pilot: Mark L. Polansky
- Payload Commander:
- Mission Specialist 1: Marsha Ivins
- Mission Specialist 2: Thomas D. Jones
- Mission Specialist 3: Robert L. Curbeam Jr.
- Mission Specialist 4:
- Mission Specialist 5:
- Payload Specialist 1:
- Payload Specialist 2:

ISS/Mir Crew Transport

[edit] Mission

STS 98 is an American shuttle spacecraft that was launched from Cape Canaveral at 23:13 UT. It carried a large module, Destiny and a crew of five astronauts to deliver it to the International Space Station (ISS). It docked with the Unity module on 9 February, and delivered Destiny (2001-006B) to another port on Unity. After many hours of spacewalk, the astronauts secured the electrical connections and mechanical fits. The crew also delivered over a ton of food, fuel and equipment to the ISS. STS 98, with all five astronauts, landed in Edwards AFB in California on 20 February at 20:33 UT due to persistent wind problems at Cape Canaveral.

[edit] EVA

Extravehicular Activity (EVA) conducted by Robert Curbeam and Thomas Jones during three space-walks for a total of 19 hours, 48 minutes. EVA 1, Curbeam and Jones, 7 hours, 34 minutes; Cur-beam and Jones installed and hooked up Destiny to ISS's Unity module. EVA 2, Curbeam and Jones, 6 hours, 50 minutes; Curbeam and Jones attached a station docking adapter to the forward end of Destiny to establish a new docking port for future shuttle assembly flights. EVA 3, Curbeam and Jones, 5 hours, 25 minutes, the 100th spacewalk in U.S. space program history; Curbeam and Jones attached a spare communications antenna on the exterior of the ISS and inspected the exterior of the ISS and the U.S. solar arrays.