ISS: Expedition 3

Launch from Cape Canaveral; landing on Cape Canaveral (KSC).

Following a two day solo flight the Discovery docked with the ISS on 12.08.2001. The crew replaced the Expedition 2 crew. EVA by Dezhurov and Tyurin on 08.10.2001 (4h 58m) using first time the new Russian built airlock and docking port named Pirs, which docked on the Zvezda module since September 2001.

Second spacewalk by Dezhurov and Tyurin on 15.10.2001 (5h 52m) to mount a variety of instruments outside the Zvezda service module.

Third EVA by Dezhurov and Culbertson on 12.11.2001 (5h 4m) to connect seven cables between Zvezda service module and Pirs docking module and take photos.

Fourth EVA by Dezhurov and Tyurin on 03.12.2001 (2h 46m) to cut away a rubbery O-ring seal that was preventing an unmanned cargo freighter from properly docking to the complex.

The crew carried home the results of following experiments: Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility, the Dynamically Controlled Protein Crystal Growth experiment and cells from the Cellular Biotechnology Operations Support System (CBOSS). All in all this crew made 19 science experiments.

Common work with the visiting crew of Soyuz TM-33 (23. - 31.10.2001) was done.