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For assembling the international space station various launch vehicles have been sent. The details are as follows:

Flight

Launch Vehicle

Launch

Landing

Crew/Element(s)

1R

Russian Proton

July 8-14,

2000

TBD

Zvezda Service Module

2A.2b

Space Shuttle/ STS- 106

August 19, 2000

TBD

Spacehab Logistics Flight

3A

Space Shuttle/ STS-92

Sept. 21, 2000

TBD

Integrated Truss Structure (ITS) Z1; pressurized mating; Ku-band communications system; control moment gyros

2R

Soyuz

Oct. 30, 2000

3-4 months later/ STS-102

U.S. Astronaut William Shepherd (ISS CDR), Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko, Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev

4A

Space Shuttle/ STS-97

Nov. 30, 2000

TBD

Integrated Truss Structure (P6); Photovoltaic Module; radiators

5A

Space Shuttle/ STS-98

Jan. 18, 2001

TBD

Destiny laboratory module

4R

Soyuz

Feb. 9, 2001

TBD

Docking Compartment 1; Strela boom

5A.1

Space Shuttle/ STS-102

Feb. 15, 2001

6 months later, flight 7A.1 (STS-105)

Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Usachev (ISS CDR), U.S. Astronaut James Voss, U.S. Astronaut Susan Helms; Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module

6A

Space Shuttle/ STS-100

April 19, 2001

TBD

Rafaello MPLM; Station Remote Manipulator System; Ultra High Frequency antenna

2s

Soyuz

April 30, 2001

TBD

Soyuz spacecraft exchange

7A

Space Shuttle/ STS-104

May 17, 2001

TBD

Airlock; High Pressure Gas Assembly

7A.1

STS-105

TBD

6 months later, flight 8A (STS-108)

U.S. Astronaut Frank Culbertson Jr. (ISS CDR), Russian Cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov, Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Turin; Donatello MPLM

UF-1

Space Shuttle/ STS-109

Aug. 23, 2001

 

Multi-Purpose Logistics Module; Photovoltaic Module batteries; Spares Pallet

8A

STS-108

TBD

Soyuz spacecraft

Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Onufrienko (ISS CDR), U.S. Astronaut Carl Walz, U.S. Astronaut Daniel Bursch

 

 

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