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STS-111

Canadarm2 grapples the Mobile Base System, prior to its installation on the ISS' Mobile Servicing System
Mission type	ISS logistics Crew rotation
Operator	NASA
Mission duration	13 days, 20 hours, 35 minutes, 56 seconds
Distance travelled	9,300,000 kilometres (5,800,000 mi)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Space Shuttle Endeavour
Launch mass	116,523 kilograms (256,889 lb)
Landing mass	99,385 kilograms (219,106 lb)
Payload mass	12,058 kilograms (26,583 lb)
Crew
Crew size	7
Members	Kenneth D. Cockrell Paul S. Lockhart Philippe Perrin Franklin Chang Díaz
Launching	Valery G. Korzun Peggy A. Whitson Sergei Y. Treshchov
Landing	Yuri I. Onufrienko Carl E. Walz Daniel W. Bursch
Start of mission
Launch date	5 June 2002 21:22:49 (2002-06-05UTC21:22:49Z) UTC
Launch site	Kennedy LC-39A
End of mission
Landing date	19 June 2002 17:58:45 (2002-06-19UTC17:58:46Z) UTC
Landing site	Edwards Runway 22
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee	349 kilometres (217 mi)
Apogee	387 kilometres (240 mi)
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Period	91.9 minutes
Docking with ISS
Docking port	PMA-2 (Destiny forward)
Docking date	7 June 2002 16:25 UTC
Undocking date	15 June 2002 14:32 UTC
Time docked	7 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes
(L-R): Philippe Perrin, Paul S. Lockhart, Kenneth D. Cockrell, Franklin R. Chang-Diaz Space Shuttle program ← STS-110 STS-112 →

STS-111 was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. STS-111 resupplied the station and replaced the Expedition 4 crew with the Expedition 5 crew. It was launched on 5 June 2002, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Crew

Launched Expedition 5 crew

Landed Expedition 4 crew

Position	Launching Astronaut	Landing Astronaut
Commander	Kenneth D. Cockrell Fifth and last spaceflight
Pilot	Paul S. Lockhart First spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1	Philippe Perrin, CNES Only spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2	/ Franklin Chang-Diaz Seventh and last spaceflight
Mission Specialist 3	Valery G. Korzun, RKA Expedition 5 Second and last spaceflight ISS Commander/Soyuz Commander	Yuri I. Onufrienko, RKA Expedition 4 Second spaceflight ISS Commander/Soyuz Commander
Mission Specialist 4	Peggy A. Whitson Expedition 5 First spaceflight ISS Flight Engineer	Carl E. Walz Expedition 4 Fourth and last spaceflight ISS Flight Engineer
Mission Specialist 5	Sergei Y. Treshchov, RKA Expedition 5 Only spaceflight ISS Flight Engineer	Daniel W. Bursch Expedition 4 Fourth and last spaceflight ISS Flight Engineer

Mission highlights

STS-111 launches from Kennedy Space Center, 5 June 2002.

STS-111 lands at Edwards Air Force Base, 19 June 2002.

STS-111, in addition to providing supplies, rotated the crews aboard the International Space Station, exchanging the three Expedition 4 members (1 Russian, 2 American) for the three Expedition 5 members (2 Russian, 1 American).

The Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) carried experiment racks and three stowage and resupply racks to the station. The mission also installed a component of the Canadarm2 called the Mobile Base System (MBS) to the Mobile Transporter (MT) (which was installed during STS-110); This was the second component of the Canadian Mobile Servicing System, or MSS. This gave the mechanical arm the capability to "inchworm" from the U.S. Lab fixture to the MBS and travel along the Truss to work sites.

STS-111 was the last flight of a CNES astronaut, the French agency having disbanded its astronaut group and transferred them to the ESA.

Spacewalks

Endeavour carrying the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module on its approach to the ISS on STS-111

Illustration of the International Space Station during STS-111

Media

See also

In Spanish: STS-111 para niños