STS-112
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STS-112 was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Spac
Canadarm2 takes the S1 truss out of the payload bay of Atlantis, prior to its installation on the ISS
(L-R): Sandra H. Magnus, David A. Wolf, Pamela A. Melroy, Jeffrey S. Ashby, Piers J. Sellers and Fyodor YurchikhinSpace Shuttle program← STS-111STS-113 →
The S1 Radiator panels being manufactured at the Michoud Assembly Facility
Illustration of the International Space Station after STS-112.
On February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second of two Space Shuttle missio
STS-112
…to the next mission (STS-113), an upper-level decision was made at NASA to continue with launches as scheduled. The launch subsequent to that was the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the ill-fated STS-107. Space Shuttle Atlantis had been scheduled to visit the International Space Station (ISS) again on the STS-114 mission in March…
Columbia prior to launch. The circled area on the external tank (ET) is the left bipod foam ramp, and the circled area on the orbiter is the location that was damaged.
Close-up of the left bipod foam ramp that broke off and damaged the orbiter wing
The crew of STS-107. From left to right: Brown, Husband, Clark, Chawla, Anderson, McCool, Ramon.
STS-107 crew posing for a group photo in space