Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC);
landing on Edwards
AFB. The launch was scrubbed on May 30, 2002 and on
May 31, 2002 due to bad weather in Florida.
ISS-14-
UF2,
MPLM.
Following a two day solo flight docking
to
ISS on June 07, 2002. Valeri
Korzun, Peggy
Whitson and Sergei
Treshchyov became as the
fifth expedition the
new resident crew of the
ISS. They replaced the
fourth expedition with
Carl
Walz, Yuri
Onufriyenko and Daniel
Bursch. One of the four control moment gyroscopes failed, but
this resulted no safety problems.
The Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
(
MPLM) carried experiment racks and three stowage and
resupply racks to the station. The mission also installed a component of the
Canadarm2 called the Mobile Base System (
MBS) to the Mobile
Transporter (MT) (which was installed during
STS-110); This completed the Canadian
Mobile Servicing System, or MSS. This gave the mechanical arm the capability to
"inchworm" from the U.S. Lab fixture to the MSS and travel along the Truss to
work sites.
The first
EVA
by Franklin
Chang-Diaz and Philippe
Perrin was performed on June 09, 2002 (7h 14m) to install a
Power and Data Grapple Fixture to the station's P6 truss, to gather six
micrometeorid debris shields from the shuttle cargo bay and to store them
temporarily on the
PMA-1. Franklin
Chang-Diaz conducted a visual and photographic inspection of
the failed gyroscope.
The second
EVA
by the same duo occured on June 11, 2002 (5h), to complete the installation of
the second component of Canada's Remote Servicing System to the
ISS. They connected power and data cables to the newly
installed Mobile Base System (
MBS) and bolt it to the Mobile Transporter. They also
relocated a TV camera.
The third and final
EVA
was again performed by Franklin
Chang-Diaz and Philippe
Perrin on June 13, 2002 (7h 17m) to replace a faulty
wrist-roll joint on Canadarm2.
The landing site was switched to the
Edwards
AFB
after three days of wave offs due to unacceptable weather conditions at the
KSC.
