STS-100
Launched: April 19, 2001, 2:40:42 p.m. EDT
Landing: May 1, 2001, 12:10:42 p.m. EDT, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Crew: Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Jeffrey Ashby, Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John Phillips, Umberto Guidoni and Yuri Lonchakov
The STS-100 mission’s goal was to continue the assembly of the International Space Station. The advanced robotic arm, called Canadarm2, was attached to a pallet on the outside of Destiny. It later was directed to "walk off" the pallet and grab onto an electrical grapple fixture on the Lab which would provide data, power and telemetry to the arm. Days later the arm was used to hand off the cradle, on which it rested inside Endeavour's payload bay during launch, to the orbiter's arm. The exchange of the cradle from station arm to shuttle arm marked the first ever robotic-to-robotic transfer in space. The 6,000 pounds of cargo inside the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello was transferred to the station, including two new scientific experiment racks for Destiny and the first three U.S. commercial payloads. In turn, 1,600 pounds of material were stored inside Raffaello for return to Earth.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts100-s-001
Date: December 2000
STS-100
Launched: April 19, 2001, 2:40:42 p.m. EDT
Landing: May 1, 2001, 12:10:42 p.m. EDT, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Crew: Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Jeffrey Ashby, Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John Phillips, Umberto Guidoni and Yuri Lonchakov
The STS-100 mission’s goal was to continue the assembly of the International Space Station. The advanced robotic arm, called Canadarm2, was attached to a pallet on the outside of Destiny. It later was directed to "walk off" the pallet and grab onto an electrical grapple fixture on the Lab which would provide data, power and telemetry to the arm. Days later the arm was used to hand off the cradle, on which it rested inside Endeavour's payload bay during launch, to the orbiter's arm. The exchange of the cradle from station arm to shuttle arm marked the first ever robotic-to-robotic transfer in space. The 6,000 pounds of cargo inside the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello was transferred to the station, including two new scientific experiment racks for Destiny and the first three U.S. commercial payloads. In turn, 1,600 pounds of material were stored inside Raffaello for return to Earth.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts100-s-001
Date: December 2000