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23 November 2002, 00:49:47 UTC, T minus Zero

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Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-113) lifts off from LC-39A, 7:49:47 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, 23 November 2002. (NASA)

23 November 2002, 00:49:47 UTC, T minus Zero: Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) lifted off from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, on mission STS-113.

The mission commander, Captain James D. Wetherbee, United States Navy, was on his sixth space flight and shuttle pilot Lieutenant Colonel Paul S. Lockhart, United States Air Force, was on his second. Mission Specialist Captain Miguel López-Alegría, USN,  was on his third space flight while Commander John B. Harrington, USN, was on his first.

Flight crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-113), left to right, LCOL Paul S. Lockhart, USAF; CAPT Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, USN; CDR John B. Herrington, USN; CAPT James D. Wetherbee, USN. (NASA)
Flight crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-113), left to right, LCOL Paul S. Lockhart, USAF; CAPT Michael E. López-Alegría, USN; CDR John B. Herrington, USN; CAPT James D. Wetherbee, USN. (NASA)

STS-113 delivered the P1 truss (the Port Side Thermal Radiator Truss), a major structural component of the International Space Station, into orbit, while also carrying the three members of Expedition 6, who were to spend the next four months on board the space station: Captain Kenneth D. Bowersox, USN, was on his fifth space flight; Test Cosmonaut Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (Николай Михайлович Бударин), Russian Federal Space Agency (RKA), on his third flight; and Donald R. Pettit, Ph.D., NASA, was on his first. ISS Expedition 5 members Colonel Valery Grigoryevich Korzun (Валерий Григорьевич Корзун), Soviet Air Force, Peggy Annette Whitson, Ph.D., NASA, and Sergei Yevgenyevich Treshchov (Сергей Евгеньевич Трещёв), RSC Energia, having completed their assignments to the ISS, were returned to Earth aboard Endeavour.

Endeavour landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility (LSF), Kennedy Space Center, at 19:38:25 UTC, 7 December 2002. The duration of mission STS-113 was  13 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes, 38 seconds.  Endeavour remained docked with the ISS for 6 days, 22 hours, 51 minutes, 00 seconds. While in orbit, NASA astronauts López-Alegría and Herrington performed three EVAs (Extravehicular Activity, of “space walks”).

Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) in Earth orbit, photographed from the International Space Station. The P1 Truss is in the open cargo bay. (NASA)
Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) in Earth orbit, photographed from the International Space Station, 25 November 2002. The P1 Truss is in the open cargo bay. (NASA)

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29 June 1995, 13:00:16 UTC

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This view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis still connected to Russia’s Mir Space Station was photographed by the Mir-19 crew on July 4, 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, Mir-19 Commander and Flight Engineer, respectively, temporarily undocked the Soyuz spacecraft from the cluster of Mir elements to perform a brief fly-around. They took pictures while the STS-71 crew, with Mir-18’s three crew members aboard, undocked Atlantis for the completion of this leg of the joint activities. Solovyev and Budarin had been taxied to the Mir Space Station by the STS-71 ascent trip of Atlantis. (NASA GPN-2000-001315)

29 June 1995. Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-71) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.

This was the 100th manned U.S. space flight.

Atlantis‘ crew consisted of Spacecraft Commander Roger Lee (“Hoot”) Gibson, on his fifth and final space flight; Shuutle Pilot Charles Joseph Precourt; and five Mission Specialists: Ellen Louise Shulman Baker, Gregory Jordan Harbaugh, Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar, Anatoly Yakolvlevich Solovyev, and Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin.

Atlantis had launched from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, at 19:32:19 UTC, 27 June 1995.

Atlantis docked with Mir at 13:00:16 UTC on 29 June. It remained docked for 4 days, 22 hours, 9 minutes, 26 seconds.

Cosmonauts Solovyev and Budarin remained on board Mir, and when Atlantis returned to Earth it carried Genady Mikhailovich Strekalov, Vladamir Nikolayevich Dezhurov, and Norman Earl Thagard, each of whom had completed their assignments aboard Mir.

Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center Space Shuttle Landing Facility, 14:55:28 UTC, 7 July 1991. The total duration of Mission STS-71 was 9 days, 19 hours, 23 minutes, 9 seconds.

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