STS-102

**STS-102**
Organization	NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States)
Mission type	Engineering,Human Crew
Launch date	March 8, 2001
Launch vehicle	Space Shuttle
Launch site	Cape Canaveral, United States
COSPAR ID	2001-010A
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Experiments	Here
Alternate Names	26718
Additional Information	Here
Data Collection	Here
Payload Mass Up	13035.79 kg
Payload Mass Down	9267.73 kg
Orbiter	Discovery
Lift Off Mass	2,045,454.55 kg
Orbiter Weight at Liftoff	120,362.27 kg
Orbiter Weight at Landing	98,986.82 kg
Landed	Concrete runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Orbits of Earth	202
Orbital Altitude	205 nautical miles

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[edit] Crew

Commander: James D. Weatherbee
Pilot: James M. Kelly
- Payload Commander:
- Mission Specialist 1: Andrew S.W. Thomas
- Mission Specialist 2: Paul W. Richards
- Mission Specialist 3:
- Mission Specialist 4:
- Mission Specialist 5:
- Payload Specialist 1:
- Payload Specialist 2:

ISS/Mir Crew Transport

[edit] Mission

STS 102 is an American shutte spacecraft that was launched from Cape Canaveral at 11:42 UT. It carried a crew of seven astronauts (six American and one Russian). The primary mission is to deliver a multi-rack Italian container LMPLM (Leonardo MultiPurpose Logistics Module) to the Destiny Module of the International Space Station, ISS. It docked with the ISS at 05:34 UT on 9 March. The 6.4 m x 4.6 m cylindrical LMPLM delivered new equipment to Destiny, and retrieved used/unwanted equipment, and trach back to the shuttle. The crew did a few spacewalks to install a platform on the ISS to support a Canadian robot arm when it arrives next month. The STS 102 left behind three of the astronauts (two American and one Russian) and brought back the three astronauts (one American and two Russian) who had been inhabiting the ISS for about four and a half months, when it landed at Cape Canaveral at 07:31 UT on 21 March.

[edit] EVA

Extravehicular Activity (EVA) conducted by Susan Helms, James Voss, Paul Richards, and Andy Thomas during two spacewalks for a total of 15 hours, 16 minutes. EVA 1, Helms and Voss, 8 hours, 56 minutes; Helms and Voss prepared one of ISS's berthing ports for the Leonardo transfer module. EVA 2, Richards and Thomas, 6 hours, 30 minutes; Richards and Thomas continued work to outfit the station and prepare for delivery of its own robotic arm on the next mission.