STS-104

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STS-104
Organization NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States)
Mission type Engineering,Human Crew
Launch date July 12, 2001 (2001-07-12)
Launch vehicle Space Shuttle
Launch site Cape Canaveral, United States
COSPAR ID 2001-028A
Inclination 51.6 degrees
Experiments Here
Alternate Names 26862
Additional Information Here
Data Collection Here
Payload Mass Up 11985.72 kg
Payload Mass Down 3303.64 kg
Orbiter Atlantis
Lift Off Mass 2,054,617.73 kg
Orbiter Weight at Liftoff 119,523.64 kg
Orbiter Weight at Landing 94,046.36 kg
Landed Concrete runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Orbits of Earth 200
Orbital Altitude 240 nautical miles


Contents

Crew

  • Commander: Steven W. Lindsey
  • Pilot: Charles O. Hobaugh
    • Payload Commander:
    • Mission Specialist 1: Michael L. Gernhardt
    • Mission Specialist 2: James F. Reilly
    • Mission Specialist 3: Janet L. Kavandi
    • Mission Specialist 4:
    • Mission Specialist 5:
    • Payload Specialist 1:
    • Payload Specialist 2:


ISS/Mir Crew Transport


Mission

STS 104 is an American shuttle spacecraft that was launched from Cape Canaveral at 09:04 UT on 12 July 2001. It carried a crew of five American astronauts and a major unit called ISS Airlock, and docked with the ISS at 03:08 UT on 14 July 2001. The six tonne Airlock is a pressurizable unit consisting of two cyclinders of diameter four meters and a total length six meters. They were installed and secured by the crew during three EVAs. The Airlock can be pressurized by the externally mounted high pressure oxygen-nitrogen tanks, and will be the sole unit through which all future EVAs will take place. (Until now, all EVA entries/exits have been through a Russian module in ISS, with non-Russians having to wear Russian space suits.) Another payload was the "EarthKAM" of middle/high school interest. It will allow pupils to command picture-taking of chosen spots on Earth; there were expected to target 2,000 spots. The shuttle also carried out pulsed exhaust during maneuvers to enable better understanding of the formation of HF echoes from the shuttle exhaust. The echoes were obtained by ground based radars in an experiment called SIMPLEX (Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with Pulsed Local EXhaust). The shuttle landed back in Cape Canaveral at 03:39 UT on 25 July 2001.


EVA

Extravehicular Activity (EVA) conducted by Michael Gernhardt and James Reilly during two spacewalks for a total of 12 hours, 25 minutes. EVA 1, 5 hours, 59 minutes; Gernhardt and Reilly assisted space station robot arm operator Susan Helms with installation of the joint airlock onto the station. EVA 2, 6 hours, 29 minutes; Gernhardt and Reilly installed three high-pressure gas tanks (two oxygen and one nitrogen) onto the joint airlock. EVA 3, 4 hours, 2 minutes; Gernhardt and Reilly, conducting first spacewalk from new joint airlock, installed fourth high-pressure gas tank (nitrogen) onto the joint air-lock, plus handholds and communications cables.


Payload

ISS Assembly Flight 7A; Joint Airlock and High-Pressure Gas Tanks; first flight of Block II main engine high-pressure fuel turbopump


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