STS-113
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| Mission: | STS-113 |
| Shuttle: | Endeavour |
| Launch Pad: | 39-A |
| Launch: | November 23, 2002 7:49:47 pm EST |
| Landing: | December 7, 2002 2:37:12 p.m. EST KSC Runway 33. |
| Duration: | 13 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes, 38 seconds. |
| Orbit Altitude: | 122 nautical miles (226 km) |
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.6 degrees |
| Distance traveled: | 5.7 million miles (9 million km) |
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Crew
- James D. Wetherbee (6), Commander
- Paul S. Lockhart (2), Pilot
- Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (3), Mission Specialist
- John B. Herrington (1), Mission Specialist
Launched ISS Expedition 6 Crew:
- Kenneth D. Bowersox (5), ISS Commander
- Nikolai M. Budarin (3) (RSC), ISS Flight Engineer
- Donald R. Pettit (1), ISS Flight Engineer
Landed ISS Expedition 5 Crew:
- Valery G. Korzun (2) (RSA), ISS Commander
- Peggy A. Whitson (1), ISS Flight Engineer
- Sergei Y. Treschev (RSC), ISS Flight Engineer
Mission Parameters
- Mass:
- Orbiter Liftoff: 116,460 kg
- Orbiter Landing: 91,498 kg
- Payload: 12,477 kg
- Perigee: 379 km
- Apogee: 397 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 92.3 min
Docking with ISS
- Docked: November 25, 2002, 21:59:00 UTC
- Undocked: December 2, 2002, 20:50:00 UTC
- Time Docked: 6 days, 22 h, 51 min, 00 s
Space walks
- Lopez-Alegria and Herrington - EVA 1
- EVA 1 Start: November 26, 2002 - 19:49 UTC
- EVA 1 End: November 27, - 02:34 UTC
- Duration: 6 hours, 45 minutes
- Lopez-Alegria and Herrington - EVA 2
- EVA 2 Start: November 28, 2002 - 18:36 UTC
- EVA 2 End: November 29, - 00:46 UTC
- Duration: 6 hours, 10 minutes
- Lopez-Alegria and Herrington - EVA 3
- EVA 3 Start: November 30, 2002 - 19:25 UTC
- EVA 3 End: December 1, - 02:25 UTC
- Duration: 7 hours, 00 minutes
Mission Highlights
During a 14-day mission in November and December 2002, Space Shuttle Endeavour and its crew extended the International Space Station's backbone and exchanged the Expedition Five and Six crews. With Commander Jim Wetherbee and Pilot Paul Lockhart at the controls, Endeavour docked with the station Nov. 25 to begin seven days of station assembly, spacewalks and crew and equipment transfers.
STS-113 was the 16th shuttle mission to the station. It continued the station's outward expansion with the delivery of the P1 (P-One) Truss. Mission Specialists John Herrington and Michael Lopez-Alegria performed three spacewalks to activate and outfit the P1. Also, the STS-113 and both Expedition crews transferred about 1,969 kilograms (4,340 pounds) of cargo between the shuttle and station.
STS-113 delivered the Expedition Six crew -- Commander Ken Bowersox, NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit and Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin -- to the station for a four-month increment. The Expedition Five crew -- Commander Valery Korzun, Flight Engineer Sergei Treschev and NASA ISS Science Officer Peggy Whitson -- returned to Earth aboard STS-113, ending an 185-day stay in space.
STS-113 came to a close when Space Shuttle Endeavour glided in to a landing at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Dec. 7. It was the 19th flight of Endeavour and the 112th shuttle mission. The landing was the first time a mission ended on the fourth day of landing attempts.
International Space Station Assembly Mission 11A Integrated Truss Assembly P1. This mission delivers the Integrated Truss Assembly P1 (Port Side Thermal Radiator Truss) to the Space Station. The P1 Truss is 13.7 m (45 ft) long, 4.6 m (15 ft) wide and 4 m (13 ft) high. It weighs 27,506 lb (12 t). The P1 truss will be attached to the S0 truss, launched April 8, 2002 onboard STS-110, and will flow 637 lb (290 kg) of anhydrous ammonia through three heat rejection radiators. The P1 Truss is nearly identical to the Starbord Side S1 Truss which was launched October 7, 2002 onboard STS-112 . The P1 truss provides structural support for the Space Station radiators. Mounted to the P1 truss is a second Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) cart that can be manually operated along the Mobile Transporter (MT) rail line.
Also carried aboard STS-113 is the Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) Based Pico Satellite Inspector. This payload will deploy two small satellites which will be connected via a 50 ft (15 m) tether.
Related articles
- Space science
- Space shuttle
- List of space shuttle missions
- List of human spaceflights chronologically
- List of ISS spacewalks
- List of spacewalks
External links
- NASA mission summary (http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-113/mission-sts-113.html)
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