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| Mission name | STS-98 | ||||
| Space shuttle | Atlantis | ||||
| Launch pad | 39-A | ||||
| Launch date | 7 February 2001, 18:13 pm EST | ||||
| Landing | 20 February 2001, 15:33 p.m EST, Edwards AFB, Runway 22 | ||||
| Mission duration | 12 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes, 0 seconds | ||||
| Number of orbits | 171 | ||||
| Orbital altitude | 320 kilometres (170 nmi) | ||||
| Orbital inclination | 51.6 degrees | ||||
| Distance traveled | 5.3 million8,500,000 kilometres (5,300,000 mi) | ||||
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| Docking date | 9 February 2001 16:51 UTC | ||||
| Undocking date | 16 February 2001 14:05 UTC | ||||
| Time docked | 6 days, 21 hours, 14 minutes | ||||
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| L-R: Robert Curbeam, Mark Polansky, Marsha Ivans, Kenneth Cockrell and Thomas Jones | |||||
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STS-98 was a 2001 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-98 delivered to the station the Destiny Laboratory Module. All mission objectives were completed and the shuttle reentered and landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base on 20 February 2001, after twelve days in space, six of which were spent docked to the ISS.
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[edit] Crew
| Position | Astronaut | |
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| Commander | Kenneth D. Cockrell Fourth spaceflight |
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| Pilot | Mark L. Polansky First spaceflight |
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| Mission Specialist 1 | Robert L. Curbeam Second spaceflight |
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| Mission Specialist 2 | Marsha S. Ivins Fifth spaceflight |
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| Mission Specialist 3 | Thomas D. Jones Fourth and last spaceflight |
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[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass:
- Orbiter liftoff: 115,529 kilograms (254,700 lb)
- Orbiter landing: 90,225 kilograms (198,910 lb)
- Payload: 14,515 kilograms (32,000 lb)
- Perigee: 365 kilometres (197 nmi)
- Apogee: 378 kilometres (204 nmi)
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 92 min
[edit] Launch attempts
| Attempt | Planned | Result | Turnaround | Reason | Decision point | Weather go % | Notes |
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| 1 | 19 Jan 2001, 2:10:42 am | scrubbed | --- | technical | 15 Jan 2001, 3:00 pm | rollback to VAB for booster separation cable inspection[1] | |
| 2 | 7 Feb 2001, 6:11:16 pm | success | 19 days, 16 hours, 1 minutes | 90% | [2] |
[edit] Mission highlights
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The crew continued the task of building and enhancing the International Space Station by delivering the U.S. Destiny Laboratory Module. The Shuttle spent six days docked to the station while the laboratory was attached and three spacewalks were conducted to complete its assembly. The mission also seen the 100th spacewalk in U.S. spaceflight history. STS-98 occurred while the first station crew was aboard the new space station.
[edit] Space walks
| EVA | Spacewalkers | Start (UTC) | End | Duration |
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| EVA 1 | Thomas D. Jones Robert L. Curbeam |
10 February 2001 15:50 |
10 February 2001 23:24 |
7 hours 34 minutes |
| Jones and Curbeam went to the payload bay of Atlantis where they disconnected cables and removed protective covers from the outside hatch of Destiny. Once at the installation site and after Destiny had been securely installed, the pair began connecting power and data cables. | ||||
| EVA 2 | Jones Curbeam |
12 February 2001 15:59 |
12 February 2001 22:49 |
6 hours 50 minutes |
| The pair of spacewalkers went outside and assisted the robot arm operator with removing the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA-2) from the Z1 Truss segment and installing it onto the forward end of the Destiny laboratory. Once that task was complete Jones and Curbeam moved to a location on the Destiny lab and installed a Power Data and Grapple fixture and video signal converter, to be used with the Canadarm2. | ||||
| EVA 3 | Jones Curbeam |
14 February 2001 14:48 |
14 February 2001 20:13 |
5 hours 25 minutes |
| During the third and final spacewalk, the two spacewalkers attached a spare communications antenna to the International Space Station's exterior. They also double-checked connections between the Destiny lab and its docking port, released a cooling radiator on the station, inspected solar array connections at the top of the station and tested the ability of a spacewalker to carry an immobile crew member back to the shuttle airlock. | ||||
[edit] Wake-up calls
NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, which was first used to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15.[3] Each track is specially chosen, often by their families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities.[4][5]
| Flight Day | Song | Artist/Composer | Links |
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| Day 2 | "Where You At" | Zoot Sims | wav mp3 Transcript |
| Day 3 | "Who Let The Dogs Out" | Baha Men | wav mp3 Transcript |
| Day 4 | "Girl's Breakdown" | Alison Brown | wav mp3 Transcript |
| Day 5 | "Blue Danube Waltz" | Johann Strauss Jr. | wav mp3 Transcript |
| Day 6 | "Fly Me to the Moon" | Frank Sinatra | wav mp3 Transcript |
| Day 7 | "For Those About to Rock" | AC/DC | wav mp3 Transcript |
| Day 8 | "To the Moon and Back" | Savage Garden | wav mp3 Transcript |
| Day 10 | "The Trail We Blaze" | Elton John | wav mp3 Transcript |
| Day 11 | "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" | Eiffel 65 | wav mp3 Transcript |
| Day 12 | "Fly Away" | Lenny Kravitz | wav mp3 Transcript |
| Day 14 | "Should I Stay or Should I Go" | The Clash | wav mp3 Transcript |
[edit] See also
- Space science
- Space shuttle
- International Space Station
- List of space shuttle missions
- List of human spaceflights chronologically
- List of ISS spacewalks
- List of spacewalks
[edit] References
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This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (May 2008) |
- ^ "NASA assesses booster wiring repair". CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/STS-98_Archive.txt. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
- ^ "Shuttle count on track; good weather expected". CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/STS-98_Archive.txt. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
- ^ Fries, Colin (25 June 2007) (PDF), Chronology of Wakeup Calls, NASA, http://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf, retrieved 13 August 2007
- ^ Fries, Colin (25 June 2007). "Chronology of Wakeup Calls" (PDF). NASA. http://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
- ^ NASA (11 May 2009). "STS-98 Wakeup Calls". NASA. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-98/html/ndxpage1.html. Retrieved 31 July 2009.
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