STS-97
2000 American crewed spaceflight to the ISS / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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STS-97 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. The crew installed the first set of solar arrays to the ISS, prepared a docking port for arrival of the Destiny Laboratory Module, and delivered supplies for the station's crew. It was the last human spaceflight of the 20th century.
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Names | Space Transportation System-97 |
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Mission type | ISS assembly |
Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 2000-078A |
SATCAT no. | 26630 |
Mission duration | 10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, 20 seconds |
Distance travelled | 7,203,000 kilometres (4,476,000 mi) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Endeavour |
Launch mass | 120,742 kilograms (266,191 lb) |
Landing mass | 89,758 kilograms (197,883 lb) |
Payload mass | 7,906 kilograms (17,430 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 5 |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 1 December 2000, 03:06 (2000-12-01UTC03:06Z) UTC |
Launch site | Kennedy LC-39B |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 11 December 2000, 23:04 (2000-12-11UTC23:05Z) UTC |
Landing site | Kennedy SLF Runway 15 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 352 kilometres (219 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 365 kilometres (227 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 91.7 min |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | PMA-3 (Unity nadir) |
Docking date | 2 December 2000 |
Undocking date | 9 December 2000 |
Time docked | 6 days, 23 hours, 13 minutes |
Left to right – Front: Bloomfield, Garneau, Jett; Back: Noriega, Tanner |
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