Space Shuttle Projects

The sixth International Space Station (ISS) assembly flight, STS-100, blasted from the launch pad aboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour on April 19, 2001. Onboard were astronauts Kent V. Rominger, Jeffrey S. Ashby, Scott E. Parazynski, Chris A. Hadfield, John Phillips, and Umberto Guidoni of the European Space agency, along with cosmonaut Yuri V. Lonchakov for an 11-day mission. Mission objectives included: The delivery of the second Canadian Remote Manipulator System, Canadarm2, which is needed to perform assembly operations on later flights; The delivery and installation of a UHF anterna that provides space-to-space communications capability for U.S.-based space walks; and carried the Italian-built Multipurpose Logistics Module Raffaello containing six system racks and two storage racks for the U.S. Lab, Destiny.