sts-102

This is a mission of the United States Space Shuttle

Space Shuttle program
Mission Insignia
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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
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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 W. 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

Mission Parameters

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

Mission highlights

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.