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STS-120 Press STS-117 Press Kit STS-117 Press Kit CONTENTS Section Page STS-120 MISSION OVERVIEW................................................................................................ 1 TIMELINE OVERVIEW.............................................................................................................. 7 MISSION PROFILE................................................................................................................... 11 MISSION PRIORITIES............................................................................................................. 13 MISSION PERSONNEL............................................................................................................. 15 STS-120 DISCOVERY CREW................................................................................................... 17 PAYLOAD OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 27 HARMONY (NODE 2) ............................................................................................................................ 27 STATION RELOCATION ACTIVITIES........................................................................................ 33 PORT 6 SOLAR ARRAYS RELOCATION.................................................................................................. 33 PRESSURIZED MATING ADAPTER-2 (PMA-2) RELOCATION.................................................................. 42 RENDEZVOUS AND DOCKING .................................................................................................. 47 UNDOCKING, SEPARATION AND DEPARTURE....................................................................................... 49 SPACEWALKS ......................................................................................................................... 51 EXPERIMENTS......................................................................................................................... 57 DETAILED TEST OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................... 57 SHORT-DURATION RESEARCH TO BE COMPLETED DURING STS-120................................................... 59 EUROPEAN EXPERIMENT PROGRAM..................................................................................................... 62 EXTERNAL TANK ET-120 (ET-120).......................................................................................... 67 SHUTTLE REFERENCE DATA .................................................................................................... 71 LAUNCH AND LANDING ........................................................................................................... 85 LAUNCH............................................................................................................................................... 85 ABORT-TO-ORBIT (ATO)...................................................................................................................... 85 TRANSATLANTIC ABORT LANDING (TAL)............................................................................................. 85 OCTOBER 2007 CONTENTS i Section Page RETURN-TO-LAUNCH-SITE (RTLS)....................................................................................................... 85 ABORT ONCE AROUND (AOA)............................................................................................................... 85 LANDING ............................................................................................................................................. 85 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ......................................................................................... 87 MEDIA ASSISTANCE ............................................................................................................... 103 PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONTACTS.................................................................................................. 105 ii CONTENTS OCTOBER 2007 STS-120 MISSION OVERVIEW: HARMONY: A GLOBAL GATEWAY PROVIDING A CONNECTION TO RESEARCH FOR THE WORLD This graphic depicts the International Space Station as it will appear after Discovery undocks, following relocation of the Port 6 truss and delivery of the Harmony module. Expansion of the International Space Station bay for installation on the station. This addition will make great strides during STS‐120, also sets the stage for the arrival of new research known as Assembly Flight 10A. The Node 2 laboratories from the European Space Agency connecting module, Harmony, will travel to the and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in station inside space shuttle Discovery’s payload upcoming shuttle missions. OCTOBER 2007 MISSION OVERVIEW 1 As part of assembling the giant laboratory, representing the European Space Agency STS‐120 astronauts will relocate the Port 6 (P6) (ESA). truss element and solar arrays to a permanent position. The element is presently on orbit and Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Daniel Tani will attached to the truss segment Zenith 1 (Z1). P6 serve as a mission specialist aboard Discovery will be removed from its current location, reat‐ before rotating positions with station resident tached to the Port 5 (P5) truss and then the solar NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson after dock‐ arrays will be redeployed and activated to ing. Anderson arrived at the station aboard the gather sunlight for power generation. space shuttle Atlantis during STS‐117 in June. Discovery’s seven astronauts include Com‐ Tani will join Expedition 16 Commander mander Pam Melroy, Pilot George Zamka, mis‐ Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Yuri sion specialists Scott Parazynski, Stephanie Malenchenko, who arrived at the station aboard Wilson, Doug Wheelock, and Paolo Nespoli, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft Oct. 12. Following the successful simulated launch countdown and emergency egress practice, the STS‐120 crew gathers for the traditional photo near the top of the launch pad fixed service structure. From left are Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski and Stephanie Wilson, Pilot George Zamka, Commander Pam Melroy, and Mission Specialists Daniel Tani, Doug Wheelock and Paolo Nespoli, who represents the European Space Agency. The countdown was the culmination of the prelaunch terminal countdown demonstration test, or TCDT. 2 MISSION OVERVIEW OCTOBER 2007 The space shuttle is poised for launch from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, backdropped by the Vehicle Assembly Building. The space shuttle mission begins with the Melroy then will move Discovery in for dock‐ targeted liftoff of Discovery from NASA’s ing to the pressurized mating adapter at the Kennedy Space Center at 11:38 a.m. EDT on end of the station’s Destiny laboratory. Oct. 23. The next day includes the close inspection of Discovery’s heat shield using the After hatches are opened, Tani and Anderson’s shuttle’s robotic arm and Orbiter Boom Sensor specialized seat liners will be exchanged inside System to check for any ascent‐imposed the emergency‐return Soyuz spacecraft; signify‐ damage to the orbiter. ing the crew members’ rotation between the space station and shuttle. Discovery arrives at the International Space Sta‐ tion on the third day of the mission. Melroy Parazynski and Wheelock will enter the sta‐ will perform the rendezvous pitch maneuver tion’s Quest airlock for the overnight campout with Discovery about 600 feet below the station. procedure to prepare for the first spacewalk on This activity allows Anderson and the next day. This procedure will be followed Malenchenko to take detailed photographs of before each spacewalk. the underside of Discovery’s heat shield as it Flight day 4 features the first of five spacewalks approaches the station. The images will be during STS‐120. Parazynski and Wheelock will added to the ascent imagery and flight day 2 prepare Harmony for its removal from Discov‐ data being analyzed by engineers on the ery’s payload bay, retrieve an S‐band antenna ground to verify the heat shield’s condition fol‐ for return to Earth and disconnect umbilicals lowing liftoff. between the P6 and Z1 truss elements. OCTOBER 2007 MISSION OVERVIEW 3 The graphic above shows the configuration of Discovery’s payload bay for the STS‐120 mission. During the spacewalk Wilson, Tani and pressurized module will continue throughout Anderson will operate the station’s robotic arm the mission. Time also is allotted this day for a for the antenna retrieval, to unberth Harmony focused inspection of Discovery’s heat shield, if from Discovery’s cargo bay and install it on the required. port side of Node 1, known as Unity. Harmony will be secured in place on Unity through The mission’s second spacewalk occurs on internal connections. Anderson and Zamka flight day 6. Parazynski and Tani will assist will close out the day with leak checks of the with detaching the P6 truss from its current interface between Unity and Harmony. location, complete external outfitting of Harmony and replace a remote power Flight day 5 features the first ingress of controller, or circuit breaker. Wilson, Wheelock Harmony in space. The hatches between Unity and Anderson will operate the station’s robotic and Harmony will be opened by Nespoli and arm for the P6 removal and to place it in an Whitson. Outfitting of the station’s newest overnight parked position. 4 MISSION OVERVIEW OCTOBER 2007 The next day, Wheelock, Wilson and Anderson will hand off the P6 element to the shuttle robotic arm, operated by Zamka and Melroy. The station robotic
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