Sts-92

STS-92

STS-92 launches from Kennedy Space Center, 11 October 2000
Mission type	ISS assembly
Operator	NASA
COSPAR ID	2000-062A
SATCAT №	26563
Mission duration	12 days, 21 hours, 43 minutes, 47 seconds
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Space Shuttle Discovery
Launch mass	115,127 kilograms (253,812 lb)
Landing mass	92,741 kilograms (204,459 lb)
Payload mass	9,513 kilograms (20,973 lb)
Crew
Crew size	7
Members	Brian Duffy Pamela A. Melroy Koichi Wakata William S. McArthur Peter J.K. Wisoff Michael E. López-Alegría Leroy Chiao
Start of mission
Launch date	11 October 2000, 23:17:00 (2000-10-11T23:17Z) UTC
Launch site	Kennedy LC-39A
End of mission
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Landing site	Edwards, Runway 22
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee	386 kilometres (240 mi)
Apogee	394 kilometres (245 mi)
Inclination	51.60 degrees
Period	92.3 min
Docking with ISS
Docking port	PMA-2 (Unity forward)
Docking date	13 October 2000, 17:45 UTC
Undocking date	20 October 2000, 15:08 UTC
Time docked	6 days, 21 hours, 23 minutes
Left to right - Front: Melroy, Duffy; Back: Chiao, Lopez-Alegria, McArthur, Wisoff, Wakata Space Shuttle program ← STS-106 STS-97 →

STS-92 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. STS-92 marked the 100th mission of the Space Shuttle. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 11 October 2000.

Crew

Spacewalks

• Chiao and McArthur – EVA 1
• EVA 1 Start: 15 October 2000 – 14:27 UTC
• EVA 1 End: 15 October 2000 – 20:55 UTC
• Duration: 6 hours, 28 minutes
• López-Alegría and Wisoff – EVA 2
• EVA 2 Start: 16 October 2000 – 14:15 UTC
• EVA 2 End: 16 October 2000 – 21:22 UTC
• Duration: 7 hours, 07 minutes
• Chiao and McArthur – EVA 3
• EVA 3 Start: 17 October 2000 – 14:30 UTC
• EVA 3 End: 17 October 2000 – 21:18 UTC
• Duration: 6 hours, 48 minutes
• López-Alegría and Wisoff – EVA 4
• EVA 4 Start: 18 October 2000 – 15:00 UTC
• EVA 4 End: 18 October 2000 – 21:56 UTC
• Duration: 6 hours, 56 minutes

Mission highlights

Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base, 24 October 2000.

Illustration of the ISS after STS-92.

STS-92 was an ISS assembly flight that brought the Z1 truss, Control Moment Gyros, Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 (PMA-3) (mounted on a Spacelab pallet) and two DDCU (Heat pipes) to the space station.

The Z1 truss was the first exterior framework installed on the ISS and allowed the first U.S. solar arrays to be temporarily installed on Unity for early power during flight 4A. The Ku-band communication system supported early science capabilities and U.S. television on flight 6A. The CMGs (Control Moment Gyros) weigh about 27 kilograms (60 lb) and provide non-propulsive (electrically powered) attitude control when activated on flight 5A, and PMA-3 provides shuttle docking port for solar array installation on flight 4A and Lab installation on flight 5A.

The mission included seven days of docked operations with the space station, four EVAs, and two ingress opportunities.

Over the course of four scheduled spacewalks, two teams of space walkers and an experienced robot arm operator collaborated to install the Z1 (Z for zenith port) truss structure on top of the U.S. Unity connecting node on the growing station and to deliver the third Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA 3) to the ISS for the future berthing of new station components and to accommodate shuttle dockings.

The Z1 truss was the first permanent lattice-work structure for the ISS, very much like a girder, setting the stage for the future addition of the station's major trusses or backbones. The Z1 fixture also served as the platform on which the huge U.S. solar arrays were mounted on the next shuttle assembly flight, STS-97.

The Z1 contains four large gyroscopic devices, called Control Moment Gyroscope (CMGs), which are used to maneuver the space station into the proper orientation on orbit once they were activated following the installation of the U.S. laboratory.

During the fourth spacewalk, astronauts Wisoff and López-Alegría tested the SAFER jet backpack, flying up to 50 feet while remaining tethered to the spacecraft.^[1]

Media

See also

• Space science
• Space shuttle
• List of space shuttle missions
• List of human spaceflights chronologically
• List of ISS spacewalks
• List of spacewalks

References

External links

• NASA mission summary
• STS-92 Video Highlights

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