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This is a mission of the United States Space Shuttle
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| Mission Insignia |
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| Mission Statistics |
| Mission: | STS-100 |
| Shuttle: | Endeavour |
| Launch Pad: | 39-A |
| Launch: | April 19, 2001
18:40:42 UTC |
| Landing: | Edwards Air Force Base, CA, Tuesday, May 1, 2001,
16:11:56 UTC |
| Duration: | 11 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes, 14 seconds |
| Orbit Altitude: | 173 nm |
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.6 deg. |
| Distance Traveled: | unknown |
| Crew photo |
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Previous Mission:
STS-102 |
Next Mission:
STS-104 |
Crew
Mission Parameters
Docking with ISS
Space walks
- Hadfield and Parazynski - EVA 1
- EVA 1 Start: April 22, 2001 - 11:45 UTC
- EVA 1 End: April 22, - 18:55 UTC
- Duration: 7 hours, 10 minutes
- Hadfield and Parazynski - EVA 2
- EVA 2 Start: April 24, 2001 - 12:34 UTC
- EVA 2 End: April 24, - 20:14 UTC
- Duration: 7 hours, 40 minutes
Mission Highlights
The highest priority objectives of the flight were the installation,
activation and checkout of the robotic arm on the station. The
operation of the arm is critical to the capability to continue
assembly of the International Space Station and to attach a new
airlock to the station on the subsequent shuttle flight, mission
STS-104, planned for launch in June. A final component of the
Canadian Arm is the Mobile Base System (MBS), installed
onboard the station during the UF-2 STS-111 flight.
Other major objectives for Endeavour's mission were to berth the
Raffaello logistics module to the station, activate it, transfer
cargo between Raffaello and the station, and reberth Raffaello in the
shuttle's payload bay. Raffaello is the second of three Italian Space
Agency-developed multi-purpose logistics modules to be launched to
the station. The Leonardo module was launched and returned on the
last shuttle flight, STS-102, in March.
Remaining objectives included the transfer of other equipment to the
station such as an Ultra-High Frequency communications antenna and a
spare electronics component to be attached to the exterior during
space walks. Finally, the transfer of supplies and water for use
aboard the station, the transfer of experiments and experiment racks
to the complex, and the transfer of items for return to Earth from
the station to the shuttle were among the objectives.
Endeavour was also to boost the station's altitude and perform
a flyaround survey of the complex, including recording views of the
station with an IMAX cargo bay camera.
During this mission, astronaut Chris Hadfield made the first spacewalk by a Canadian.
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