Mission and Crew

Shuttle Mission: STS-113
Orbiter: Endeavour
Date: November 23, 2002

Shuttle Endeavour and her crew of four are embarking on a busy 11-day mission! The Station's Integrated Truss Structure will grow by another 46 feet with the addition of the P1 truss, the first left-side truss segment to be installed on ISS. The P1 truss and Crew and Equipment Translation Aid, or CETA, cart B are virtually mirror images of the S1 truss and CETA cart A that were recently attached during mission STS-112. The primary function of the P1 truss is to provide heat transport and rejection capabilities for the Station's active thermal control system.

Another highlight of the mission will be the fifth crew rotation on the Station. The Expedition Five crew - astronaut Peggy Whitson and cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Sergei Treschev - will be relieved following a five-month stay on orbit. The Expedition Six crew - astronauts Ken Bowersox and Donald Pettit, and cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin - will begin their work detail on the ISS.

Crew of STS-113

STS-113 Crew

Commander
James Wetherbee

Pilot
Paul
Lockhart

Mission
Specialist
Michael Lopez-Alegria

Mission
Specialist
John Herrington

Expedition #6
Commander
Ken Bowersox

Expedition #6
Mission Specialist
Nikolai Budarin

Expedition #6
Mission Specialist
Donald Pettit

Crew Seating Designation

Did You Know?

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STS-113 photos are online (Note: This is a graphic-intensive site and may be difficult to view with low speed modems or when this web site receives heavy traffic loads).

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December 9, 2002	Online coverage by: Dennis Armstrong (NASA), Anna Heiney (IDI) Web Development: Lynda Warnock & Debbie Barton (FDC) Video Production: Chris Chamberland & Mike Chambers (Johnson Controls) Countdown Clock by: Jim Fitzgerald (FDC) NASA Official: Dennis Armstrong (Dennis.Armstrong-1@ksc.nasa.gov) A Service of the NASA/Kennedy Space Center Roy D. Bridges, Director