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Space Shuttle program
Mission Insignia
Mission Statistics
Mission:	STS-100
Shuttle:	Endeavour
Launch Pad:	39-A
Launch:	April 19, 2001 18:40:42 UTC
Landing:	Edwards Air Force Base, CA, Tuesday, May 1, 2001, 16:11:56 UTC
Duration:	11 days, 21 hours, 31 minutes, 14 seconds
Orbit Altitude:	173 nm
Orbit Inclination:	51.6 deg.
Distance Traveled:	unknown
Crew photo
Previous Mission: STS-102	Next Mission: STS-104

Crew

• Kent V. Rominger (5), Mission Commander
• Jeffrey S. Ashby (2), Pilot
• Chris A. Hadfield (2), Mission Specialist - Canada
• Scott E. Parazynski (4), Mission Specialist
• John L. Phillips (1), Mission Specialist
• Umberto Guidoni (2), Mission Specialist - Italy
• Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov (1), Mission Specialist - Russia

Mission Parameters

• Mass:
  • Orbiter Liftoff: 103,506 kg
  • Orbiter Landing: 99,742 kg
  • Payload: 4,899 kg
• Perigee: 377 km
• Apogee: 394 km
• Inclination: 51.6°
• Period: 92.3 min

Docking with ISS

• Docked: April 21, 2001, 13:59:00 UTC
• Undocked: April 29, 2001, 17:34:00 UTC
• Time Docked: 8 days, 3 h, 35 min, 00 s

Space walks

• Hadfield and Parazynski - EVA 1
• EVA 1 Start: April 22, 2001 - 11:45 UTC
• EVA 1 End: April 22, - 18:55 UTC
• Duration: 7 hours, 10 minutes

• Hadfield and Parazynski - EVA 2
• EVA 2 Start: April 24, 2001 - 12:34 UTC
• EVA 2 End: April 24, - 20:14 UTC
• Duration: 7 hours, 40 minutes

Mission Highlights

The highest priority objectives of the flight were the installation, activation and checkout of the robotic arm on the station. The operation of the arm is critical to the capability to continue assembly of the International Space Station and to attach a new airlock to the station on the subsequent shuttle flight, mission STS-104, planned for launch in June. A final component of the Canadian Arm is the Mobile Base System (MBS), installed onboard the station during the UF-2 STS-111 flight.

Other major objectives for Endeavour's mission were to berth the Raffaello logistics module to the station, activate it, transfer cargo between Raffaello and the station, and reberth Raffaello in the shuttle's payload bay. Raffaello is the second of three Italian Space Agency-developed multi-purpose logistics modules to be launched to the station. The Leonardo module was launched and returned on the last shuttle flight, STS-102, in March.

Remaining objectives included the transfer of other equipment to the station such as an Ultra-High Frequency communications antenna and a spare electronics component to be attached to the exterior during space walks. Finally, the transfer of supplies and water for use aboard the station, the transfer of experiments and experiment racks to the complex, and the transfer of items for return to Earth from the station to the shuttle were among the objectives.

Endeavour was also to boost the station's altitude and perform a flyaround survey of the complex, including recording views of the station with an IMAX cargo bay camera.

During this mission, astronaut Chris Hadfield made the first spacewalk by a Canadian.

Related articles

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

External links

• NASA mission summary