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STS-98

2001 American crewed spaceflight to the ISS

Field	Value
name	STS-98
names_list	Space Transportation System-98
image	ISS Destiny Lab.jpg
image_caption	Atlantis Canadarm grapples Destiny, prior to the module's installation on the ISS
insignia	Sts-98-patch.png
spacecraft
mission_type	ISS assembly
operator	NASA
COSPAR_ID
SATCAT
orbits_completed	171
distance_travelled	8500000 km
mission_duration	12 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes, 0 seconds
launch_mass	115529 kg
landing_mass	90225 kg
payload_mass	14515 kg
launch_site	Kennedy, LC-39A
launch_date	UTC
landing_date	UTC
landing_site	Edwards, Runway22
crew_size	5
crew_members
crew_photo	STS-98_crew.jpg
crew_photo_caption	L-R: Robert Curbeam, Mark Polansky, Marsha Ivins, Kenneth Cockrell and Thomas Jones
docking	{{Infobox spaceflight/Dock
docking_target	ISS
docking_type	dock
docking_port	PMA-3
(Unity nadir)
docking_date	9 February 2001, 16:51 UTC
undocking_date	16 February 2001, 14:05 UTC
time_docked	6 days, 21 hours, 14 minutes
apsis	gee
orbit_reference	Geocentric
orbit_regime	Low Earth
orbit_periapsis	365 km
orbit_apoapsis	378 km
orbit_period	92 minutes
orbit_inclination	51.6 degrees
programme	Space Shuttle program
previous_mission	STS-97 (101)
next_mission	STS-102 (103)

(Unity nadir) STS-98 was a 2001 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle * Atlantis*. It was the first human spaceflight launch of the 21st century. STS-98 delivered to the station the Destiny Laboratory Module. All mission objectives were completed and the shuttle reentered and landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base on 20 February 2001, after twelve days in space, six of which were spent docked to the ISS.

Crew

Flight Engineer

Crew seat assignments

Seat	Launch	Landing	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
[[File:Space Shuttle seating plan.svg	150px]]
Seats 1–4 are on the flight deck.
Seats 5–7 are on the mid-deck.
Cockrell
Polansky
Curbeam	Jones
Ivins
Jones	Curbeam
Unused
Unused

Launch attempts

Mission highlights

STS-98 crewmembers pose for the traditional inflight portrait on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle ''Atlantis''

The crew continued the task of building and enhancing the International Space Station by delivering the U.S. Destiny Laboratory Module. It was the first NASA lab to be permanently used since the days of Skylab nearly three decades earlier. It was manufactured by Boeing at the Michoud Assembly Facility and the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1997. Upon transport to Kennedy Space Center's industrial buildings, it was fitted with equipment, machines, racks and cables at the Operations and Checkout Building and Space Station Processing Facility. The U.S. laboratory module is 28 ft long and 14 ft wide. It is made from aluminum, and comprises three cylindrical sections and two end-cones that contain the hatch openings through which astronauts enter and exit the module. The ends are colored blue and white respectively for the crew to navigate easily. A 20 in-diameter window is located on one side of the center module segment.

During the mission, the shuttle docked to PMA 3 located on the nadir of Node 1. The crew relocated PMA 2 to the holding area on the Z1 truss temporarily, before using the Shuttle's robotic arm to lift out the 14.5 ton steel module out of the Shuttle's payload bay, and permanently berthed it on the forward hatch of Node 1. Spacewalks conducted by Thomas Jones and Robert Curbeam reattached electrical cables to the aluminum hull and connecting ports on Destiny, and also checked the laboratory's nadir window. PMA 2 was replaced to the forward hatch of Destiny.

The Shuttle spent six days docked to the station while the laboratory was attached and three spacewalks were conducted to complete its assembly. The mission also saw the 100th spacewalk in U.S. spaceflight history. STS-98 occurred while the first station crew was aboard the new space station.

Space walks

EVA	Spacewalkers	Start (UTC)	End	Duration
EVA 1	Thomas D. Jones
Robert L. Curbeam	10 February 2001
15:50	10 February 2001
23:24	7 hours 34 minutes
Jones and Curbeam went to the payload bay of Atlantis where they disconnected cables and removed protective covers from the outside hatch of Destiny. Once at the installation site and after Destiny had been securely installed, the pair began connecting power and data cables.
EVA 2	Jones
Curbeam	12 February 2001
15:59	12 February 2001
22:49	6 hours 50 minutes
The pair of spacewalkers went outside and assisted the robot arm operator with removing the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA-2) from the Z1 Truss segment and installing it onto the forward end of the Destiny laboratory. Once that task was complete Jones and Curbeam moved to a location on the Destiny lab and installed a Power Data and Grapple fixture and video signal converter, to be used with the Canadarm2.
EVA 3	Jones
Curbeam	14 February 2001
14:48	14 February 2001
20:13	5 hours 25 minutes
During the third and final spacewalk, the two spacewalkers attached a spare communications antenna to the International Space Station's exterior. They also double-checked connections between the Destiny lab and its docking port, released a cooling radiator on the station, inspected solar array connections at the top of the station and tested the ability of a spacewalker to carry an immobile crew member back to the shuttle airlock.

Wake-up calls

NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, which was first used to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15. Each track is specially chosen, often by their families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities. | access-date = 13 August 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010215010751/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-98/html/ndxpage1.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 15 February 2001 | access-date = 31 July 2009

Flight Day	Song	Artist/Composer	Played for	Links
Day 2	"Where You At"	Zoot Sims	Mark Polansky	WAV
Day 3	"Who Let the Dogs Out"	Baha Men	Kenneth Cockrell	WAV
Day 4	"Girl's Breakdown"	Alison Brown	Marsha S. Ivins	WAV
Day 5	"Blue Danube Waltz"	Johann Strauss Jr.		WAV
Day 6	"Fly Me to the Moon"	Frank Sinatra		WAV
Day 7	"For Those About to Rock"	AC/DC		WAV
Day 8	"To the Moon and Back"	Savage Garden		WAV
Day 9	"Sally Ann"	New Grange		WAV
Day 10	"The Trail We Blaze"	Elton John		WAV
Day 11	"Blue (Da Ba Dee)"	Eiffel 65		WAV
Day 12	"Fly Away"	Lenny Kravitz		WAV
Day 13	"Bad To The Bone"	George Thorogood and the Destroyers		WAV
Day 14	"Should I Stay or Should I Go"	The Clash	Entire crew	WAV

Popular culture and media

STS-98 was the designation for the fictional NASA mission to destroy an asteroid in Armageddon (1998 film).

References

Jergler, Don. (21 February 2001). "A textbook touchdown–Atlantis pays unexpected visit to desert". Antelope Valley Press.
(23 February 2001). "Welcome Home".
"STS-98". Spacefacts.
"NASA assesses booster wiring repair". CBS News.
"Shuttle count on track; good weather expected". CBS News.
(November 1997). "U.S. Laboratory Module (Destiny) for the International Space Station".

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