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Commander: Jeff Ashby
Pilot: Pam Melroy
Mission Specialists: Sandy Magnus, Piers Sellers, Dave Wolf, Fyodor Yurchikhin
Dates: October 7-18, 2002
Vehicle: Atlantis OV-104
Payloads: ISS Flight 9A: S1 Truss
Landing Site: Runway 22 at Kennedy Space Center, FL'
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-112STS-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 shuttle Columbia disaster 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...
Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment
The S1 truss segment, which provides structural support for the Space Station radiators was the main payload of STS-112 mission.
Boeing
Company started constructing the truss in May 1998. The work was
completed in March 1999. The S1 was moved to KSC in October 1999 for
flight processing. Boeing delivered the S1 to NASA in June 2002 for
final preparations and pre-flight checks.
Crew Equipment Translation Aid
Atlantis
also delivered the Crew Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) Cart to the
Space Station. The CETA cart was attached to the Mobile Transporter
(launched on STS-110) to be used by assembly crews on later missions.
Mission experiments
STS-112
carried several science experiments to the space station including the
Plant Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (PGBA), Commercial Generic
Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA), the Protein Crystal Growth Single-locker
Thermal Enclosure System housing the Protein Crystallization Apparatus
for Microgravity (PCG-STES-PCAM) and samples for the Zeolite Crystal
Growth Furnace (ZCG) experiment.
Shuttle processing
Launch
preparations for STS-112 mission were sightly delayed due to tiny
cracks found within the plumbing of Atlantis' propulsion system on 17
June 2002 by an inspector. The cracks were in metal flow liners inside
the main liquid hydrogen fuel lines that feed the shuttle's three main
engines. Although there were no cracks in the actual fuel pipes
themselves, the concern was that metal pieces from the flow liners might
break off and fly into the engines. In such a worst case scenario, the
debris can potentially trigger a catastrophic engine shutdown, which in
turn could lead to the loss of the crew and the shuttle...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrat...The
Integrated Truss Structure (ITS) forms the backbone of the
International Space Station, with mountings for unpressurized logistics
carriers, radiators, solar arrays, and other equipment...
