STS-106
The launch of STS-106
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| Mission type | ISS assembly |
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| Operator | NASA |
| COSPAR ID | 2000-053A |
| SATCAT no. | 26489 |
| Mission duration | 11 days, 19 hours, 12 minutes, 15 seconds |
| Distance travelled | 7,900,000 kilometres (4,900,000 mi) |
| Orbits completed | 185 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Atlantis |
| Launch mass | 115,259 kilograms (254,103 lb) |
| Landing mass | 100,369 kilograms (221,276 lb) |
| Payload mass | 10,219 kilograms (22,529 lb) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 7 |
| Members |
Terrence W. Wilcutt Scott D. Altman Edward T. Lu Richard A. Mastracchio Daniel C. Burbank Yuri Malenchenko Boris Morukov |
| EVAs | 1 |
| EVA duration | 6 hours, 14 minutes |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 8 September 2000, 12:45:47 UTC |
| Launch site | Kennedy LC-39B |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 19 September 2000, 07:56 UTC |
| Landing site | Kennedy SLF Runway 15 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee | 375 kilometres (233 mi) |
| Apogee | 386 kilometres (240 mi) |
| Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
| Period | 92.2 minutes |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port |
PMA-2 (Unity) |
| Docking date | 10 September 2000, 05:51:25 UTC |
| Undocking date | 18 September 2000, 03:46:00 UTC |
| Time docked | 7 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes, 35 seconds |
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 Left to right: Front row - Altman and Wilcutt; Back row - Morukov, Mastracchio, Lu, Burbank, Malenchenko. |
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STS-106 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Space Station assembly flight ISS-2A.2b utilized the SPACEHAB Double Module and the Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) to bring supplies to the station. The mission also included one spacewalk.
Veteran Astronaut Terrence Wilcutt (Col., USMC) lead the seven-man crew, commanding his second Shuttle flight and making his fourth trip into space. During the planned 11-day mission, Wilcutt and his crew mates spent a week inside the ISS unloading supplies from both a double SPACEHAB cargo module in the rear of Atlantis's cargo bay and from a Russian Progress M-1 resupply craft docked to the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module. Zvezda, which linked up to the ISS on 26 July, served as the early living quarters for the station and is the cornerstone of the Russian contribution to the ISS.
The goal of the flight was to prepare Zvezda for the arrival of the first residents, or Expedition, crew later in the fall of 2000 and the start of a permanent human presence on the new outpost. That crew, made up of Expedition Commander Bill Shepherd, Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev, launched on 31 October 2000 in a Soyuz capsule from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four-month "shakedown" mission aboard the ISS.
On flight day three, Dr. Ed Lu and Yuri Malenchenko (Col., Russian Air Force), who were both making their second flights into space, conducted a 6-hour and 14 minute space walk. The spacewalk's objective focused on routing and connecting nine power, data and communications cables between the Zvezda module and the other Russian-built module, Zarya, as well as installing the six-foot-long magnetometer. The magnetometer would serve as a three-dimensional compass designed to minimize Zvezda propellant usage by relaying information to the module's computers regarding its orientation relative to the Earth.
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