STS-100

Infobox Space mission
mission_name = STS-100
insignia = STS-100 patch.svg
shuttle = Endeavour
launch_pad = 39-A
launch = April 19, 2001, 18:40:42 UTC
landing = May 1, 2001,16:11:56 UTC, EAFB
duration = 11 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes, 14 seconds
altitude = 173 nautical miles (320 km)
inclination = 51.6 deg
distance =
crew_photo = STS-100_crew.jpg
crew_caption =
previous = STS-102
next = STS-104

STS-100 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle " Endeavour". STS-100 installed the ISS Canadarm2 robotic arm.

Crew

*Kent V. Rominger (5), Commander
*Jeffrey S. Ashby (2), Pilot
*Chris Hadfield (2), Mission Specialist 1 - flag|Canada CSA
*Scott E. Parazynski (4), Mission Specialist 3
*John L. Phillips (1), Mission Specialist 2
*Umberto Guidoni (2), Mission Specialist 4 - flag|Italy ESA
*Yuri Lonchakov (1), Mission Specialist 5 - flag|Russia RSA

Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission.

Mission parameters

*Mass:
**"Orbiter liftoff:" 103,506 kg
**"Orbiter landing:" 99,742 kg
**"Payload:" 4,899 kg
*Perigee: 377 km
*Apogee: 394 km
*Inclination: 51.6°
*Period: 92.3 min

Docking with ISS

*Docked: April 21, 2001, 13:59:00 UTC
*Undocked: April 29, 2001, 17:34:00 UTC
*Time Docked: 8 days, 3 h, 35 min, 00 s

pace 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 Canadarm2 robotic arm on the station. The operation of the arm is critical to the capability to continue assembly of the International Space Station, and was also necessary to attach a new
airlock to the station on the subsequent shuttle flight, mission
STS-104. A final component of the Canadarm is the Mobile Base System (MBS), installed onboard the station during the 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 Module that were launched to the station. The Leonardo module was launched and returned on the previous 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 also to boosted the station's altitude and perform a flyaround survey of the complex, including recording views of the station with an IMAX cargo bay camera.

All objectives were completed without incident, and reentry and landing happened uneventfully on May 1.

During this mission, astronaut Chris Hadfield made the first spacewalk by a Canadian.

ee also

* Space science
* Space shuttle
* List of space shuttle missions
* List of human spaceflights chronologically
* List of ISS spacewalks
* List of spacewalks

External links

* [http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-100/mission-sts-100.html NASA mission summary]
* [http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle104.htm STS-100 Video Highlights]