Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing on Cape
Canaveral (
KSC).
Mission
ISS-10-7A Joint
Airlock. Primary objectives were to install the Quest Joint Airlock. The Joint
Airlock is 20 ft (6.1 m) long, 13 ft (4.0 m) in diameter and weighs 6.5 short
tons (5.9 metric tons). The Joint Airlock is a pressurized flight element
consisting of two cylindrical chambers attached end-to-end by a connecting
bulkhead and hatch. It should give the
ISS resident
crews the possibility to perform
EVAs without
using a Space Shuttle airlock.
Following a two day solo flight the
Atlantis docked with the
ISS on
14.07.2001 and common work with the
ISS
expedition 2.
First
EVA by
Gernhardt and
Reilly on 14.07.2001 (5h 59m) to install Joint Airlock Module
("Quest") and attaching two high pressure oxygen tanks.
Second
EVA by
Gernhardt and
Reilly on 18.07.2001 (6h 29m) to mount one oxygen and one
nitrogen tank.
Third an final
EVA (using first
time the new airlock Quest) by
Gernhardt and
Reilly on 20.07.2001 (4h 02m) to attach the final nitrogen
tank.
