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STS-111, in addition to providing supplies, rotated the crews aboard the International Space Station, exchanging the three ISS Expedition 4 members (1 Russian and 2 Americans) for the three ISS Expedition 5 members (2 Russians and 1 American).
MISSION STATISTICS
Mission name: STS-111
Shuttle: Endeavour
Number of crew members: 4
Launch:
5 June 2002, 21:22:49 UTC
Landing:
19 June 2002, 17:58:45 UTC EAFB, Runway 22
Duration: 13 days, 20 hours, 35 minutes, 56 seconds
Number of orbits: 217
CREW
- Kenneth D. Cockrell (5), Commander
- Paul S. Lockhart (1), Pilot
- Franklin Chang-Diaz (7), Mission Specialist
- Philippe Perrin (1), Mission Specialist - CNES
Launched ISS Expedition 5 crew
- Valery G. Korzun (2), ISS Commander - RSA
- Peggy A. Whitson (1), ISS Flight Engineer
- Sergei Y. Treschev (1), Flight Engineer - RSA
Landed ISS Expedition 4 crew
- Yuri I. Onufrienko (2), ISS Commander - RSA
- Carl E. Walz (4), ISS Flight Engineer
- Daniel W. Bursch (4), ISS Flight Engineer
(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission
MISSION HIGHLIGHTS
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 completed the Canadian Mobile Servicing System, or MSS. This gave the mechanical arm the capability to 'inchworm' from the U.S. Lab fixture to the MSS 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 ESA.
Space Shuttle Endeavour, with the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module inside its payload bay, delivered more payload and experiment racks to the Destiny Laboratory. The Mobile Base System was also installed completing the Station's Mobile Servicing System, which includes the Canadarm2 and the Mobile Transporter.
The STS-111 crew also delivered the Expedition Five crew for its resident stay and returned home the Expedition Four crew after 196 days in space.
