STS-102
Launched: March 8, 2001, 6:42:09 a.m. EST
Landing: March 21, 2001, 2:31 a.m. EST, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Crew: Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Jeffrey Ashby, Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John Phillips, Umberto Guidoni and Yuri Lonchakov
STS-102 carried the second resident crew to the International Space Station, as well as supplies, equipment, and experiments for transfer. Joint operations between the shuttle crew and the station crews resulted in unloading almost five tons of experiments and equipment from Leonardo and packing almost one ton of items for return to Earth. Discovery's spacewalkers — James Voss, Susan Helms, Andrew Thomas and Paul Richards — set the stage for continued expansion of the station by installing a platform that was used to mount a Canadian-built robotic arm, the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), to the station on a later mission.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts102-s-001
Date: January 2001
STS-102
Launched: March 8, 2001, 6:42:09 a.m. EST
Landing: March 21, 2001, 2:31 a.m. EST, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space Shuttle: Discovery
Crew: Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Jeffrey Ashby, Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John Phillips, Umberto Guidoni and Yuri Lonchakov
STS-102 carried the second resident crew to the International Space Station, as well as supplies, equipment, and experiments for transfer. Joint operations between the shuttle crew and the station crews resulted in unloading almost five tons of experiments and equipment from Leonardo and packing almost one ton of items for return to Earth. Discovery's spacewalkers — James Voss, Susan Helms, Andrew Thomas and Paul Richards — set the stage for continued expansion of the station by installing a platform that was used to mount a Canadian-built robotic arm, the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), to the station on a later mission.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts102-s-001
Date: January 2001