launched fromUSA
STS-97
Success
DEC 01200003:06:00 UTCEndeavour delivered the P6 truss and the first large US solar arrays to the International Space Station, the heaviest element a shuttle had yet brought up and a major jump in the outpost's power supply. It was the first shuttle to visit while a crew was aboard, docking with the Expedition 1 residents, and the last human spaceflight of the 20th century. A spacewalk freed a kink that had stopped one array from fully extending.
LIFTOFF
DEC 01 200003:06:00 UTC
Success
launched fromLC-39AKennedy
aboardSpace Shuttle EndeavourSTS-97intoLEO
Payloads · 2
- 01
STS-97
ISS assembly
- 02
P6 Truss
ISS component
Crew · 5
- 01Brent W. Jett Jr.fromUSA
- 02Michael J. BloomfieldfromUSA
- 03Joseph R. TannerfromUSA
- 04Marc GarneaufromCanada
- 05Carlos I. NoriegafromUSA
