Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing on Cape
Canaveral (
KSC);
ISS-16-11A.
Following a two day solo flight the Endeavour docked to the
ISS on
25.11.2002
Bowersox,
Budarin and
Pettit served as
ISS
expedition 6. The
expedition 5 crew
Whitson,
Korzun and
Treshchyov returned to Earth with this mission.
New $
390 million P1 solar array truss segment, a 13.7 meters long, 12,5-ton beam
packed with computers, a complex ammonia cooling system and other equipment,
was attached to the station.
First
EVA by
Lopez-Alegria and
Herrington on 26.11.2002 (6h 45m) to hook up connections
between the P1 and S0 trusses and other installations.
Second
EVA by
Lopez-Alegria and
Herrington on 28.11.2002 (6h 10m) to install the fluid
jumpers where the S0 and the P1 are attached to each other, to remove the P1's
starboard keel pin and to relocate the
CETA
cart from the P1 to the S1 Truss, which will allow the Mobile Transporter to
move along the P1 to assist in upcoming assembly mission.
Third and
final
EVA by
Lopez-Alegria and
Herrington on 30.11.2002 (7h 00m) to install more
SPD's (Spool
Positioning Devices), to reconfigure electrical harnesses that route power
through the Main Bus Switching Units and to attach Ammonia Tank Assembly
lines.
Mission was extended three days due of bad weather on Cape
Canaveral (
KSC).
