STS-102 facts for kids

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STS-102

ICC (left) and the MPLM Leonardo (center) in Discovery's payload bay
Mission type	ISS crew rotation
Operator	NASA
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	James D. Wetherbee James M. Kelly Andrew S. W. Thomas Paul W. Richards
Launching	Yury V. Usachev James S. Voss Susan J. Helms
Landing	William M. Shepherd Yuri P. Gidzenko Sergei K. Krikalev
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	370 kilometres (230 mi)
Apogee	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. Space Shuttle program ← STS-98 STS-100 →

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.

Crew

Position	Launching Astronaut	Landing Astronaut
Commander	James D. Wetherbee Fifth spaceflight
Pilot	James M. Kelly First spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1	/ Andrew S. W. Thomas Third spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2	Paul W. Richards First spaceflight
Mission Specialist 3	Yury V. Usachev, RKA Expedition 2 Fourth and last spaceflight ISS Commander/ISS Soyuz Commander	William M. Shepherd Expedition 1 Fourth and last spaceflight ISS Commander
Mission Specialist 4	James S. Voss Expedition 2 Fifth and last spaceflight ISS Flight Engineer	Yuri P. Gidzenko, RKA Expedition 1 Second spaceflight ISS Soyuz Commander
Mission Specialist 5	Susan J. Helms Expedition 2 Fifth and last spaceflight ISS Flight Engineer 2	Sergei K. Krikalev, RKA Expedition 1 Fifth spaceflight ISS Flight Engineer

Spacewalks

ICC STS-102

• Voss and Helms – EVA 1
• EVA 1 Start: 11 March 2001 – 05:12 UTC
• EVA 1 End: 11 March 2001 – 14:08 UTC
• Duration: 8 hours, 56 minutes
• Thomas and Richards – EVA 2
• EVA 2 Start:13 March 2001 – 05:23 UTC
• EVA 2 End: 13 March 2001 – 11:44 UTC
• Duration: 6 hours, 21 minutes

Mission highlights

Space Station Assembly Flight ISS-5A.1 was the first use of the Multi Purpose Logistics Module (Leonardo) to bring supplies to the station. The steel modules were equipped with up to 16 International Standard Payload Racks for installation in the US Lab. Also carried an Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC). The ICC had the External Stowage Platform-1 mounted on its underside. ESP-1 was placed on the port side of 'Destiny' as a storage location for ORUs. The mission also included two spacewalks to relocate the units carried up by the ICC to the Destiny module exterior.

Wake-up calls

NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, which was first used to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15. Each track is specially chosen, often by their families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities.

See also

In Spanish: STS-102 para niños