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
Expedition 3 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 07.12.2001 to the
ISS.
Onufriyenko,
Walz
and
Bursch became as "
Expedition 4" the new resident crew of the
ISS. The
Expedition 3 crew with
Culbertson,
Tyurin and
Dezhurov returned to Earth with his mission.
EVA by
Godwin and
Tani
on 10.12.2001 (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.
