Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC);
landing on Cape Canaveral (
KSC); Mission
ISS-12-
UF1.
The launch of space shuttle Endeavour on
November 29, 2001 was rescheduled for December 04, 2001 to allow sufficient
time for the
third
expedition crew on the space station to successfully complete a spacewalk
to clear an obstruction on the latching mechanism on the Russian Progress
supply vehicle. Due of bad weather in Florida this launch attempt was
postponed.
Following a two day solo flight the Endeavour docked on
December 07, 2001 to the
ISS. Yuri
Onufriyenko, Carl
Walz
and Daniel
Bursch became as
fourth expedition the
new resident crew of the
ISS. The
third expedition crew
with Frank
Culbertson, Mikhail
Tyurin and Vladimir
Dezhurov returned to Earth with his mission.
The only
EVA
was performed by Linda
Godwin and Daniel
Tani
on December 10, 2001 (4h 15m) to add insulation blankets around two critical
solar array drives, but they were unable to tighten up a solar array support
truss.
The crew unpacked three tons of supplies brought from Earth in
the Raffaello cargo module. The module contained two tons of unneeded
equipment, food containers, clothes and other cargo, when returned home. Before
leaving the
ISS the altitude of the station was raised to fly well
clear of an old Russian rocket body. Finally the crew deployed the small
STARSHINE satellite.
Endeavour's middeck carried home the results of
several experiments completed during
expedition 3's stay on
the station. These included the Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility, the
Dynamically Controlled Protein Crystal Growth experiment and cells from the
Cellular Biotechnology Operations Support System (
CBOSS).
