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STS-112

STS-112
STS-112 Atlantis carrying S1 truss.jpg
Atlantis arrives at the ISS
Mission type ISS assembly
Operator NASA
COSPAR ID 2002-047A
SATCAT no. 27537
Mission duration 10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, 44 seconds
Distance travelled 7,200,000 kilometres (4,500,000 mi)
Orbits completed 170
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Space Shuttle Atlantis
Launch mass 116,538 kilograms (256,922 lb)
Landing mass 91,390 kilograms (201,480 lb)
Payload mass 12,572 kilograms (27,717 lb)
Crew
Crew size 6
Members Jeffrey S. Ashby
Pamela A. Melroy
Piers Sellers
Sandra H. Magnus
David A. Wolf
Fyodor N. Yurchikhin
Start of mission
Launch date 7 October 2002, 19:45:51 (2002-10-07UTC19:45:51Z) UTC
Launch site Kennedy LC-39B
End of mission
Landing date 18 October 2002, 15:44:35 (2002-10-18UTC15:44:36Z) UTC
Landing site Kennedy SLF Runway 33
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee 273 kilometres (170 mi)
Apogee 405 kilometres (252 mi)
Inclination 51.6 degrees
Period 91.2 minutes
Docking with ISS
Docking port PMA-2
(Destiny forward)
Docking date 9 October 2002, 15:16 UTC
Undocking date 16 October 2002, 13:13 UTC
Time docked 6 days, 21 hours, 57 minutes

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(L-R): Sandra H. Magnus, David A. Wolf, Pamela A. Melroy, Jeffrey S. Ashby, Piers J. Sellers and Fyodor Yurchikhin
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STS-112 (ISS assembly flight 9A) was an 11-day space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to deliver the 28,000 pound Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment to the Space Station. Ending a 4.5-million-mile journey, Atlantis landed at 15:44 UTC on 18 October 2002 on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility.

During the launch, the ET bipod ramp shed a chunk of foam that caused a dent ~4" wide and 3" deep into the metal SRB-ET Attach Ring near the bottom of the left SRB. Prior to the next mission (STS-113), an upper-level decision was made at NASA to continue with launches as scheduled. The launch subsequent to that was the ill-fated STS-107.

Space shuttle Atlantis had been scheduled to visit the International Space Station (ISS) again on STS-114 mission in March 2003; however, due to the loss of Columbia, all space shuttles, including Atlantis, were temporarily grounded. Due to rescheduling of missions, Atlantis did not fly again until STS-115 on 9 September 2006.

The S1 truss segment, which provides structural support for the Space Station radiators was the main payload of STS-112 mission.


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