STS-112 Crew Mission Parameters Docking With ISS Space Walks


Mission Insignia

Mission Statistics
Mission:	STS-112
Shuttle:	Atlantis
Launch Pad:	39-B
Launch:	October 7, 2002 3:46 p.m. EDT
Landing:	11:44 a.m. EDT, October 18, 2002. KSC Runway 33
Duration:	10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, 44 seconds.
Orbit Altitude:	122 nautical miles (226 km)
Orbit Inclination:	51.6 degrees
Distance traveled:	4.5 million miles (7.2 million km)
Crew photo

3 Mission Highlights

International Space StationOverview Continuing on from the United States' Skylab and Russia's Mir, the International Space Station ISS represents a permanent human presence in space: it has been manned with a crew of at least two since November 2, 2000. Each time that the crew is r Assembly Mission 9A. This mission delivered

the Integrated Truss Assembly S1 (Starboard Side Thermal Radiator Truss) and the Crew Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) Cart to the Space Station. The S1 Truss is 45 ft (13.7 m) long, 15 ft (4.6 m) wide and 10 ft (3.0 m) tall. It weighs approximately 31,000 lb (14 t). The S1 truss was attached to the S0 truss (Launched April 8, 2002 onboard STS-110) and uses 637 lb (289 kg) of anhydrous ammonia in three heat rejection radiators. The CETA cart was attached to the Mobile Transporter (also launched on STS-110) to be used by assembly crews on later missions. STS-112 also carried several science experiments to the 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 Crystillization Apparatus for Microgravity (PCG-STES-PCAM) and samples for the Zeolite Crystal Growth Furnace (ZCG) experiment.

4 Shuttlecam

A camera mounted to the shuttle's external tank captured Atlantis' ascent to orbit. This was the first time such footage was recorded. Shuttlecam video

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1 Crew

2 Mission Parameters

2.1 Docking with ISS

2.2 Space walks