STS-102
2001 American crewed spaceflight to the ISS / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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STS-102 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery and launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. STS-102 flew in March 2001; its primary objectives were resupplying the ISS and rotating the Expedition 1 and Expedition 2 crews. At eight hours 56 minutes, the first EVA performed on the mission remains the longest spacewalk ever undertaken.
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Names | Space Transportation System-102 |
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Mission type | ISS crew rotation |
Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 2001-010A |
SATCAT no. | 26718 |
Mission duration | 12 days, 19 hours, 51 minutes, 57 seconds |
Distance travelled | 8.5 million kilometres (5.3 million miles) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery |
Launch mass | 99,503 kilograms (219,367 lb) |
Landing mass | 90,043 kilograms (198,511 lb) |
Payload mass | 5,760 kilograms (12,700 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 7 |
Members | |
Launching | |
Landing | |
EVAs | 2 |
EVA duration | 15 hours, 17 minutes |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 8 March 2001, 11:42 (2001-03-08UTC11:42Z) UTC |
Launch site | Kennedy LC-39B |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 21 March 2001, 07:33:06 (2001-03-21UTC07:33:07Z) UTC |
Landing site | Kennedy SLF Runway 15 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 370 kilometres (230 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 381 kilometres (237 mi) |
Inclination | 51.5 degrees |
Period | 92.1 minutes |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | PMA-2 (Destiny forward) |
Docking date | 10 March 2001, 06:38 UTC |
Undocking date | 19 March 2001, 04:32 UTC |
Time docked | 8 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes |
The STS-102 crew portrait. |
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