STS-112

STS-112 (ISS assembly flight 9A) was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by . Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to deliver the 28,000 pound Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment to the Space Station. Ending a 4.5-million-mile journey, Atlantis landed at 15:44 UTC on 18 October 2002 on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility.

Key facts

Spaceflight.name: STS-112
Spaceflight.names_list: Space Transportation System-112
Spaceflight.image: S112 S1 truss is moved from the Payload Bay of Atlantis.jpg
Spaceflight.image_upright: 0.7
Spaceflight.image_caption: Canadarm2 takes the S1 truss out of the payload bay of Atlantis, prior to its installation on the ISS
Spaceflight.insignia: Sts-112-patch.png
Spaceflight.mission_type: ISS assembly
Spaceflight.operator: NASA
Spaceflight.orbits_completed: 170
Spaceflight.mission_duration: 10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, 44 seconds
Spaceflight.launch_site: Kennedy, LC-39B
Spaceflight.launch_date:  UTC
Spaceflight.landing_date:  UTC
Spaceflight.landing_site: Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
Spaceflight.crew_size: 6
Spaceflight.crew_photo: STS-112 crew.jpg
Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption: (L-R): Sandra H. Magnus, David A. Wolf, Pamela A. Melroy, Jeffrey S. Ashby, Piers J. Sellers and Fyodor Yurchikhin
Spaceflight.apsis: gee

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Crew
Mission payload
Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment
Crew Equipment Translation Aid
Mission experiments
Shuttle processing
Mission timeline
7 October (Flight Day 1 – Launch)
8 October (Flight Day 2 – Rendezvous and docking preparations)
9 October (Flight Day 3 – Docking)
10 October (Flight Day 4 – EVA 1)
11 October (Flight Day 5 – Off duty and transfers)
12 October (Flight Day 6 – EVA 2)
13 October (Flight Day 7)
14 October (Flight Day 8 – EVA 3)
15 October (Flight Day 9)
16 October (Flight Day 10 – Undocking)
17 October (Flight Day 11 – Landing preparations)
18 October (Flight Day 12 – Landing)
Crew seat assignments
Spacewalks
Shuttlecam
Wake-up calls
Media
See also
References
External links

During the launch, the ET bipod ramp shed a chunk of foam that caused a dent ~4" wide and 3" deep into the metal SRB-ET Attach Ring near the bottom of the left Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster. Prior to the next mission (STS-113), an upper-level decision was made at NASA to continue with launches as scheduled. The launch subsequent to that was the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the ill-fated STS-107.

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