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April 2001
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Shuttle Endeavour Successfully Launches STS-100 Mission to Space Station
The Space Shuttle Endeavour successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center, pad 39A at 18:40:42 UTC (11:40:42 a.m. PDT) on April 19. The crew is composed of seven astronauts: Kent Rominger, commander, Jeff Ashby, pilot and John Phillips, mission specialist, Scott Parazynski, mission specialist, Chris Hadfield (Canada), mission specialist, Umberto Guidoni (Italy), mission specialist, and cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov (Russia), mission specialist.
Endeavour's mission is to deliver the Space Station Remote Manipulator System robot arm, which was built by Canada. The 17.6 m (57.7 ft) Canadarm is essential to the continued assembly of the International Space Station (ISS). The pallet containing the arm will be mounted to the station's Destiny lab module. Astronauts Hadfield and Parazynski will spacewalk to bolt the sections of the arm together and perform the re-wiring necessary to bring the Canadarm2 to life.
Endeavour is carrying supplies, hardware and equipment in the Raffaello module, which will be transferred to the station's Destiny laboratory. Raffaello will be lifted out of Endeavour's payload bay and docked to the station for unloading, then stowed back in the shuttle for its return to Earth for later reuse.
Related News:
NASA Sticks With April 19 Shuttle Launch Date
(http://www.gisdevelopment.net/news/2001/apr/na009.htm)
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