ISS: Expedition 5

Launch, orbit & landing data: Launch date - time  05 Jun 2002 - 21:22 UT Launch spacecraft  STS-111 Flight Crew  Korzun, Valeri (CDR) Whitson, Peggy (FE) Treshchyov, Sergei (FE) Backup crew   Undocking date - time  02 Dec 2002 - 20:05 UT Landing spacecraft  STS-113 Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  184:22:15 Nbr orbits  2910

Crew

Mission details:

• Crew replaced the Expedition 4 crew; 26 experiments on different scientific fields; problems with the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG); the crew also performed different repair and maintenance work; EVA by Korzun and Whitson on 16.08.2002 (4h 25m) to install first six of an eventuel 23 debris shields on Zvezda; second EVA by Korzun and Treshchyov on 26.08.2002 (5h 21m) to attach equipment to the station's exterior that will be used during future spacewalks, to install new plates for the Russian Kromka experiment and to replace Japanese materials experiment panels on Svezda; they also installed two additional ham radio antennas on Zvezda; during this mission Peggy Whitson was named NASA ISS science officer; cargo freighters Progress 8 and 9 brought food, fuel and supplies to the station and were unloaded by the crew; in addition the Soyuz 5 taxi crew (replacing the station's "life-boat) and the crew of STS-112 were visitors of the ISS.
• The Progress M1-8 (Progress No. 257) cargo ship undocked from the Zvezda module at 08:26 UTC on Jun 25, 2002. The deorbit burn was at 11:35 UTC, lowering its orbit from 379 x 398 km x 51.6 deg to 50 x 398 km, and the spacecraft reentered over the Pacific at 12:13 UTC.
• Progress M-46 (Progress No. 246) was launched from Baykonur on Jun 26, 2002. ISS mission 8P uses the older model Progress M. M-46 docked with the Zvezda module at 06:23 UTC on Jun 29 after carrying out tests of the Kurs rendezvous system on Jun 28.
• On Aug 16, 2002 Valery Korzun and Peggy Whitson carried out two depressurized operations in spacesuits Orlan-M No. 14 and Orlan-M No. 23. The first operation began at 07:30 UT and concluded at 07:53 UT for a duration of 23 minutes. In this depress op, Korzun and Whitson remained inside the Pirs airlock. This EVA was postponed at the last moment because of a misconfigured oxygen valve in their spacesuits, forcing the astronauts to repressurize Pirs to 730 mbar to correct the problem.
  The second operation began at 09:06 when the pressure in Pirs again fell below 50 mbar and the hatch was opened. This time all went well as the astronauts emerged from Pirs and attached six debris protection shields to the outside of the Zvezda module. Korzun and Whitson returned to Pirs, postponing some planned tasks, and closed the hatch at 13:48 UT. Pirs was repressurized at 13:52 UT for a depress duration of 4h46min.
• Another spacewalk was carried out on Aug 26,2002 by Korzun and Treschev in Orlan-M suits nos. 14 and 12. Depressurization of the Pirs airlock past the 50 mbar po intwas at 05:07 UT, with hatch open at 05:27. They installed a storage locker on Zarya, changed out some sample trays for exposure experiments, and mounted two amateur radio antennas on the station. The hatch was closed at 10:48 UT and the Pirs was repressurized at about 10:50 UT for a duration of 5hr 43min.
• The amateur radio antennas on the Zvezda module are part of the Amateur Radio on International Space Station (ARISS) project. This system has four antenna setups positioned at 90 deg interval around the aft edge of the Zvezda module. Each antenna setup, attached to the module by means of a clamp to some of the EVA handrails, has an L-band/S-band spiral antenna, a vertical flexible whip for VHF/UHF (one of the four is however for HF operations), and a diplexer which enables use of the two antennas with a single coax cable. The four cables are routed via feedthroughs on the aft Zvezda bulkhead and brought behind an internal Zvezda panel which will eventually host the ISS Amateur Radio station equipment (which is now located at the +Y, or Unity end, of Zarya). Next year it will be possible to receive slow scan TV images using a PC with soundcard connected to a basic VHF FM receiver.
• Progress M1-9 (Progress No. 258) docked with Zvezda at 1700 UTC on Sep 29, 2002. Progress M-46 undocked from Zvezda at 1358 UTC on Sep 24 and remained in orbit to carry out photography of the Earth.
• Soyuz TMA-1 docked with the Pirs module at 0501 UTC on Nov 1, 2002. The EP-4 visiting crew of Zalyotin, De Winne and Lonchakov have joined Korzun, Treshchev and Whitson on the Station.
• On Nov 9, 2002 the EP-4 crew boarded Soyuz TM-34 and undocked from the Zarya nadir port at 2044 UTC, leaving Soyuz TMA-1 for the resident crew. Soyuz TM-34 landed in Kazakstan at 0004 UTC on Nov 10.
• At 2005 UTC on Dec 2, 2002 Endeavour undocked from the Station with the Expedition 5 crew aboard.

External links:

• Wikipedia: Exp. descriptions
• Spacefacts: Exp. description