STS-111

Infobox Space mission
mission_name = STS-111
insignia = Sts-111-patch.png shuttle = Endeavour
launch pad = 39-A
launch = June 5, 2002 21:22:49 UTC
landing = June 19, 2002 17:58:45 UTC EAFB Runway 22
duration = 13 days, 20:35:56
altitude = 122 nautical miles (226 km)
inclination = 51.6 degrees
distance = 5.8 million miles (9.3 million km)
crew_photo = STS-111 crew.jpg
crew_caption = (L-R): Philippe Perrin, Paul S. Lockhart, Kenneth D. Cockrell, Franklin R. Chang-Diaz
previous = STS-110 | next = STS-112

STS-111 was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle " Endeavour". STS-111 resupplied the station and replaced the Expedition 4 crew with the Expedition 5 crew. It was launched on June 5, 2002, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Crew

*Kenneth D. Cockrell (5), Commander
*Paul S. Lockhart (1), Pilot
*Franklin Chang-Diaz (7), Mission Specialist
*Philippe Perrin (1), Mission Specialist - CNES

Launched ISS Expedition 5 crew

*Valery G. Korzun (2)), ISS Commander - RSA
*Peggy A. Whitson (1), ISS Flight Engineer
*Sergei Y. Treshchev (1), Flight Engineer - RSA

Landed ISS Expedition 4 crew

*Yuri I. Onufrienko (2}, ISS Commander - RSA
*Carl E. Walz (4), ISS Flight Engineer
*Daniel W. Bursch (4), ISS Flight Engineer

Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission.

Mission parameters

*Mass:
**"Orbiter Liftoff:" 116,523 kg
**"Orbiter Landing:" 99,385 kg
**"Payload:" 12,058 kg
*Perigee: 349 km
*Apogee: 387 km
*Inclination: 51.6°
*Period: 91.9 min

Docking with ISS

*Docked: June 7, 2002, 16:25:00 UTC
*Undocked: June 15, 2002, 14:32:00 UTC
*Time Docked: 7 days, 22 h, 7 min, 00 s

Mission highlights

STS-111, in addition to providing supplies, rotated the crews aboard the International Space Station, exchanging the three Expedition 4 members (1 Russian, 2 American) for the three Expedition 5 members (2 Russian, 1 American).

The Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) carried experiment racks and three stowage and resupply racks to the station. The mission also installed a component of the Canadarm2 called the Mobile Base System (MBS) to the Mobile Transporter (MT) (which was installed during STS-110); This completed the Canadian Mobile Servicing System, or MSS. This gave the mechanical arm the capability to "inchworm" from the U.S. Lab fixture to the MSS and travel along the Truss to work sites.

STS-111 was the last flight of a CNES astronaut, the French agency having disbanded its astronaut group and transferred them to the ESA.

=Spacewalks=

ee also

*Space science
*Space shuttle
*List of space shuttle missions
*List of human spaceflights chronologically
*List of ISS spacewalks
*List of spacewalks

External links

* [http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-111/mission-sts-111.html NASA mission summary]
* [http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/sts111/index.html Status reports] - Detailed NASA status reports for each day of the mission.
* [http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle110.htm STS-111 Video Highlights]