Launch from Cape Canaveral; landing on Cape
Canaveral (
KSC).
Following a two day solo flight the Discovery docked with the
ISS on
10.03.2001. The crew replaced the
Expedition
1 crew.
Voss
and
Usachyov performed a first station based spacewalk (
IVA) on the
ISS on
08.06.2001 (19 minutes) to install a docking cone assembly for the arrival of a
new Russian built docking compartment, scheduled for late 2001. Several
technical problems with the Canadian built remote manipulator system
(Canadarm2); scientific work onboard the station (18 different science
experiments). Two cargo spacecrafts were unloaded.
During this
expedition, research facilities launched to the Space Station included a Human
Research Facility, two EXPRESS (Expedite the Processing of Experiments to the
Space Station) Racks, one of which contains the Active Rack Isolation System
and the Payload Equipment Restraint System. They also prepared the Destiny
laboratory to enable upcoming experiments to be conducted.
Common work
with the visiting crews of
STS-100 (21. -
29.04.2001),
Soyuz
TM-32 (30.04. - 06.05.2001) and
STS-104 (14. -
22.07.2001) was done.
