STS-112

STS-112
Canadarm2 takes the S1 truss out of the payload bay of Atlantis, prior to its installation on the ISS
NamesSpace Transportation System-112
Mission typeISS assembly
OperatorNASA
COSPAR ID2002-047A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.27537
Mission duration10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, 44 seconds
Distance travelled7,200,000 kilometres (4,500,000 mi)
Orbits completed170
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSpace Shuttle Atlantis
Launch mass116,538 kilograms (256,922 lb)
Landing mass91,390 kilograms (201,480 lb)
Payload mass12,572 kilograms (27,717 lb)
Crew
Crew size6
Members
Start of mission
Launch date7 October 2002, 19:45:51 (2002-10-07UTC19:45:51Z) UTC
Launch siteKennedy, LC-39B
End of mission
Landing date18 October 2002, 15:44:35 (2002-10-18UTC15:44:36Z) UTC
Landing siteKennedy, SLF Runway 33
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude273 kilometres (170 mi)
Apogee altitude405 kilometres (252 mi)
Inclination51.6 degrees
Period91.2 minutes
Docking with ISS
Docking portPMA-2
(Destiny forward)
Docking date9 October 2002, 15:16 UTC
Undocking date16 October 2002, 13:13 UTC
Time docked6 days, 21 hours, 57 minutes

(L-R): Sandra H. Magnus, David A. Wolf, Pamela A. Melroy, Jeffrey S. Ashby, Piers J. Sellers and Fyodor Yurchikhin
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STS-112 (ISS assembly flight 9A) was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis.[1] 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.[2] 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 Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster.[3] 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 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the ill-fated STS-107.[4]

Space Shuttle Atlantis had been scheduled to visit the International Space Station (ISS) again on the STS-114 mission in March 2003;[5] however, due to the loss of Columbia, 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.

  1. ^ NASA (5 September 2002). "STS-112/9A Shuttle Press Kit – Expanding the Station Backbone/Increasing Crew Capabilities". Space.com. Archived from the original on 2 July 2010. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  2. ^ "STS-112 MCC Status Report #01". NASA. 8 October 2002. Archived from the original on 17 October 2002. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
  3. ^ Oliu, Armando (10 October 2002). "STS-112 SRB POST FLIGHT/RETRIEVAL ASSESSMENT" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
  4. ^ Gehman, Harold; Barry, John; Deal, Duane; Hallock, James; Hess, Kenneth; Hubbard, G. Scott; Logsdon, John; Osheroff, Douglas D.; Ride, Sally; Tetrault, Roger; Turcotte, Stephen; Wallace, Steven; Widnall, Sheila (26 August 2003). Report of Columbia Accident Investigation Board (PDF) (Report). Vol. 1. NASA. pp. 125, 148, 149. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  5. ^ NASA (18 October 2002). "STS-112 MCC Status Report #23". Archived from the original on 20 October 2002. Retrieved 12 August 2010.