STS-106
2000 American crewed spaceflight to the ISS / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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STS-106 was a 2000 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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Names | Space Transportation System-106 |
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Mission type | ISS assembly |
Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 2000-053A |
SATCAT no. | 26489 |
Mission duration | 11 days, 19 hours, 12 minutes, 15 seconds |
Distance travelled | 7,900,000 kilometres (4,900,000 mi) |
Orbits completed | 185 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Atlantis |
Launch mass | 115,259 kilograms (254,103 lb) |
Landing mass | 100,369 kilograms (221,276 lb) |
Payload mass | 10,219 kilograms (22,529 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 7 |
Members | |
EVAs | 1 |
EVA duration | 6 hours, 14 minutes |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 8 September 2000, 12:45:47 (2000-09-08UTC12:45:47Z) UTC |
Launch site | Kennedy LC-39B |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 20 September 2000, 07:56 (2000-09-20UTC07:57Z) UTC |
Landing site | Kennedy SLF Runway 15 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 375 kilometres (233 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 386 kilometres (240 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 92.2 minutes |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | PMA-2 (Unity) |
Docking date | 10 September 2000, 05:51:25 UTC |
Undocking date | 18 September 2000, 03:46:00 UTC |
Time docked | 7 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes, 35 seconds |
Left to right: Front row – Altman and Wilcutt; Back row – Morukov, Mastracchio, Lu, Burbank, Malenchenko. |
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