23 October 2007 15:38 GMT. Landing Date: 2007-11-07 18:01:00 PM. Flight Time: 15.10 days. Other Name: ISS-10A. Flight Up: STS-120. Flight Back: STS-120. Call Sign: Discovery. Crew: Melroy, Zamka, Parazynski, Wheelock, Wilson, Nespoli. Program: ISS. Main mission objectives were delivery of the Harmony module to the station, and external work to move the P6 truss to its final location and put the ISS into its full-power configuration for the first time. Prior to the Columbia disaster, STS-120 was to have flown on 19 February 2004 using the orbiter Atlantis and the crew of Altman, Johnson Gregory C, Grunsfeld, Massimino, Feustel, Good, and McArthur. It was instead carried out over three years later with a different orbiter and crew. The original ISS-10A would have delivered to the station the second of three station connecting modules, Node 2. This would be attached to the end of the US Lab and provide attach locations for the Japanese laboratory, European laboratory, the Centrifuge Accommodation Module and later Multipurpose Logistics Modules. The future primary docking location for the shuttle would then be a pressurized mating adapter attached to Node 2. With this mission the redefined ISS US Core would have been completed. However due to budget cutbacks it would still not have been able to sustain the six-person crew required for full science missions.
Mission Profile as finally flown:
Commander: Pam Melroy
Pilot: George Zamka
Mission Specialist 1: Scott Parazynski
Mission Specialist 2: Stephanie Wilson
Mission Specialist 3: Doug Wheelock
Mission Specialist 4: Paolo Nespoli
Mission Specialist 5: Daniel Tani (up)
Mission Specialist 5: Clayton Anderson (down)
LAUNCH
Orbiter: Discovery (OV-103)
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center
Launch Pad 39A
Launch Window: 5 Minutes
Altitude: 122 Nautical Miles (140 Miles)
Orbital Insertion; 185 NM (213 Miles)
Rendezvous Inclination: 51.6 Degrees
Shuttle Liftoff Weight: 4,524,141 pounds
Orbiter/Payload Liftoff Weight: 286,211 pounds
Orbiter/Payload Landing Weight: 201,895 pounds
Software Version: OI-32
Space Shuttle Main Engines: SSME 1: 2050 SSME 2: 2048 SSME 3: 2058
External Tank: ET-120
SRB Set: BI-131
RSRM Set: 98
Abort Landing Sites
RTLS: Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility
TAL: Primary – Zaragoza, Spain Alternates –Moron, Spain and Istres, France
AOA: Primary – Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility; Alternate – White Sands Space Harbor Landing
Payload of 17,390 kg was as follows:
- Orbiter Docking System - Bay 1-2 - 1800 kg
- Spacesuit EMU 3004 - 130 kg
- Spacesuit EMU 3003 - 130 kg
- Station Power Distribution Unit SPDU - Bay 3P - 100 kg
- Fixture for return of S-band Antenna - SASA FSE - Bay 3P - 4S - 100 kg
- Power/Data Grapple Fixture for Node-2 - PDGF - Bay 5P - 50 kg
- Main Bus Switching Unit - MBSU - Bay 6S - 238 kg
- MBSU adapter - Bay 6S - 122 kg
- Station Power Distribution Unit - SPDU - Bay 6S - 7P - 100 kg
- Node-2 Harmony module - Bays 8-12 - 14,300 kg
- OBSS 203 - Sill 450 kg
- RMS 301 - Sill 410 kg
STS-120 Chronology - 2007 Oct 23 - STS-120 Crew: Melroy, Zamka, Parazynski, Wheelock, Wilson, Nespoli, Tani. Spacecraft: Discovery. Payload: Discovery F33 / Harmony / ISS-10A. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Duration: 15.10 days. Perigee: 340 km (210 mi). Apogee: 344 km (213 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.40 min.
Main mission objectives were delivery of the Harmony module to the station, and external work to move the P6 truss to its final location and put the ISS into its full-power configuration for the first time. Discovery docked with the ISS at the Destiny module at 12:40 GMT on 25 October. The cargo of 17,390 kg was as follows:
- Orbiter Docking System - Bay 1-2 - 1800 kg
- Spacesuit EMU 3004 - 130 kg
- Spacesuit EMU 3003 - 130 kg
- Station Power Distribution Unit SPDU - Bay 3P - 100 kg
- Fixture for return of S-band Antenna - SASA FSE - Bay 3P - 4S - 100 kg
- Power/Data Grapple Fixture for Node-2 - PDGF - Bay 5P - 50 kg
- Main Bus Switching Unit - MBSU - Bay 6S - 238 kg
- MBSU adapter - Bay 6S - 122 kg
- Station Power Distribution Unit - SPDU - Bay 6S - 7P - 100 kg
- Node-2 Harmony module - Bays 8-12 - 14,300 kg
- OBSS 203 - Sill 450 kg
- RMS 301 - Sill 410 kg
- 2007 Oct 23 - STS-120 MCC Status Report #02
The Space Shuttle Discovery is headed to the International Space Station, carrying the Harmony module, destined to become the first expansion of the orbiting complex's living and working space since 2001. Additional Details: STS-120 MCC Status Report #02.
- 2007 Oct 26 - EVA STS-120-1 Crew: Parazynski, Wheelock. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.25 days.
The astronauts emerged from the Quest hatch at 10:01 GMT. They moved an antenna from the Z1 truss and stowed it in the payload bay, prepared the P6 truss for separation from Z1, and assisted in installation of the Harmony module, which was unberthed from the shuttle bay by the ISS Canadarm-2 and docked to the Unity module.
- 2007 Oct 26 - STS-120 MCC Status Report #8
It proved to be a perfect day for a spacewalk. In just over six hours, STS-120 Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock installed the Harmony module in its temporary location on the International Space Station, readied the P6 truss for its relocation on Sunday, retrieved a failed radio communications antenna and snapped shut a window cover on Harmony that opened during launch on the space shuttle.
Additional Details: STS-120 MCC Status Report #8.
- 2007 Oct 29 - STS-120 MCC Status Report #14
As crew members aboard the International Space Station and space shuttle Discovery prepared for the third spacewalk, they learned that the shuttle will spend an extra day in space, with landing now scheduled for just after 4 a.m. Nov. 7. Additional Details: STS-120 MCC Status Report #14.
- 2007 Nov 3 - STS-120 MCC Status Report #24
With a few pieces of aluminum and a little bit of wire, Mission Specialist Scott Parazynski today repaired a damaged solar array during a spacewalk that lasted 7 hours, 19 minutes. Additional Details: STS-120 MCC Status Report #24.
- 2007 Nov 5 - STS-120 MCC Status Report #27
All systems are go for this morning’s undocking of space shuttle Discovery from the International Space Station, completing 11 days of joint docked operations that saw the successful delivery of a new pressurized module and the repair of a damaged solar array wing.
Additional Details: STS-120 MCC Status Report #27.
- 2007 Nov 5 - STS-120 MCC Status Report #28
Space shuttle Discovery’s crew left the International Space Station this morning after almost 11 days of joint operations with the Expedition 16 crew. After inspecting the orbiter’s heat shield for any micrometeoroid damage, the astronauts turned their attention to returning home on Wednesday.
Additional Details: STS-120 MCC Status Report #28.
- 2007 Nov 7 - ISS On-Orbit Status 11/07/07
After 12d 17h 57min in space,STS-120/Discovery today returned to Earth, touching down at KSC on the first landing opportunity at 1:02pm EDT, after 238 orbits, 6,250,000 st. mi. Additional Details: ISS On-Orbit Status 11/07/07.
- 2007 Nov 7 - Landing of STS-120
- 2007 Nov 8 - ISS On-Orbit Status 11/08/07
In preparation for tomorrow's EVA-5, CDR Whitson and FE-1 Malenchenko, before breakfast, took the standard pre-EVA session with the Russian crew health-monitoring program's medical assessment MO-9/Biochemical Urinalysis. Additional Details: ISS On-Orbit Status 11/08/07.
- 2007 Nov 9 - ISS EO-16: Station Spacewalk Prepares for PMA, Harmony Moves
A successful 6-hour, 55-minute spacewalk to prepare for the relocation of Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 and the subsequent move of the new Harmony node to its permanent International Space Station home ended at 10:49 a.m. EST Friday. Additional Details: ISS EO-16: Station Spacewalk Prepares for PMA, Harmony Moves.
- 2007 Nov 12 - ISS EO-16: PMA-2 Move Readies Station for Harmony Relocation
International Space Station crew members moved Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 from the front of the U.S. laboratory Destiny to the Harmony node early Monday, clearing the way for Harmony's relocation to its permanent home. Additional Details: ISS EO-16: PMA-2 Move Readies Station for Harmony Relocation.
- 2007 Nov 15 - ISS EO-16: Spacewalkers to Hook Up Harmony at its New Location
A 6-hour, 40-minute spacewalk by International Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani will begin the external outfitting of the Harmony node in its new position in front of the U.S laboratory Destiny. Additional Details: ISS EO-16: Spacewalkers to Hook Up Harmony at its New Location.
- 2008 May 31 - STS-124 MCC Status Report #01
Space shuttle Discovery initiated delivery of a Japanese laboratory to the International Space Station this afternoon, lifting off at 4:02 p.m. CDT from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Additional Details: STS-124 MCC Status Report #01.
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