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| | 12.11.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #23
Endeavour and its five astronauts returned home to the Kennedy Space Center Monday evening, wrapping up a mission that delivered first set of U.S.-provided solar arrays to the Expedition One crew aboard the International Space Station, increasing power to the complex five fold in setting the stage for future station assembly.
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| | 12.11.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #22
Endeavour’s astronauts were awakened this morning to Bing Crosby’s “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” beginning what should be their final day in orbit as they prepare for a landing this evening at the Kennedy Space Center.
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| | 12.10.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #21
After their successful mission to the International Space Station, Endeavour astronauts spent much of Sunday getting ready to land at Kennedy Space Center Monday afternoon.
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| | 12.10.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #20
Endeavour’s five-member crew will pack up and get ready to come home today after successfully completing all the objectives of the STS-97 mission to help the International Space Station spread its wings.
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| | 12.09.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #19
Endeavour's astronauts made a final fly-around of the International Space Station Saturday afternoon, then separated from the orbital outpost they had helped make the most powerful spacecraft ever.
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| | 12.09.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #18
Endeavour's astronauts said good-bye to the crew aboard the International Space Station at 9:51 a.m. CST today, closing the hatches between the two vehicles in preparation for undocking at 1:13 p.m.
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| | 12.08.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #17
They'd been next-door neighbors since last Saturday, but they didn't get to meet face-to-face in space until Friday morning.
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| | 12.08.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #16
The International Space Station recorded another milestone today – the arrival of its first houseguest.
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| | 12.07.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #15
Space walking Endeavour astronauts sailed through an add-on job to tension a solar blanket Thursday, then completed their other tasks in textbook fashion.
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| | 12.07.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #14
Two of Endeavour’s astronauts will return to their jobs as orbiting construction workers today, installing probes that will measure electrical potential surrounding the station and performing some added “warranty work” on solar array blankets that didn’t stretch out completely on Sunday.
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| | 12.06.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #13
Endeavour’s astronauts worked Wednesday to get ready for the Thursday space walk by Mission Specialists Joe Tanner and Carlos Noriega.
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| | 12.06.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #12
Endeavour’s astronauts today will prepare for a third planned space walk, getting their tools ready and preparing the Floating Potential Probe for installation on the exterior of the International Space Station to measure the electrical potential of plasma around the station.
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| | 12.05.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #11
Endeavour astronauts completed the second of the STS-97 mission’s three space walks Tuesday, hooking up power and data cables and connecting ammonia coolant lines between the International Space Station’s new solar array truss and the rest of the ISS.
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| | 12.05.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #10
Space walk number two is at the top of the agenda for Endeavour’s astronauts today as they continue work to install, connect and activate the International Space Station’s new solar arrays.
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| | 12.04.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report #9
Endeavour astronauts deployed the second of two huge solar wings on the International Space Station Monday in a slow and deliberate, almost two-hour-plus process that began at 6:52 p.m.
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| | 12.04.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report # 8
Following a busy weekend that saw the crew of Endeavour dock with the International Space Station and install the new U.S. solar array structure during a 7 ½ hour space walk, the STS-97 astronauts have light duty on their schedule today before continuing activation of the new station power generation system.
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| | 12.03.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report # 7
The International Space Station spread one of its wings Sunday night as the first half of the P6 solar array was unfurled after Endeavour astronauts installed the 17.5-ton P6 solar array structure.
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| | 12.03.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report # 6
“It’s kind of like Christmas up here going through these bags.” With that comment, International Space Station Expedition 1 Commander Bill Shepherd indicated his happiness about the equipment, supplies and care packages today that were dropped by Endeavour’s astronauts following Saturday’s shuttle docking with the station.
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| | 12.02.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report # 5
Endeavour's astronauts executed a flawless docking to the inhabited International Space Station at 2 p.m. Saturday and took the first step in providing additional power to the orbiting complex in preparation for the first of three planned space walks Sunday.
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| | 12.02.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report # 4
Docking day for the crew of Endeavour began at 7:06 a.m. CST with the Shuttle about 700 miles away from the first linkup of a Shuttle and an inhabited International Space Station.
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| | 12.01.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report # 3
Endeavour’s astronauts spent much of Friday checking out equipment to be used for Saturday’s docking with the International Space Station, subsequent assembly operations and three space walks.
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| | 12.01.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report # 2
Astronauts will fire the Space Shuttle Endeavour’s large orbital maneuvering thrusters twice today as they make their way toward the International Space Station, where three fellow space travelers await their Saturday arrival.
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| | 11.30.00 - STS-97 Mission Control Center Status Report # 1
Endeavour’s five astronauts blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on the 101st mission in space shuttle history tonight to deliver the first set of U.S. solar arrays that will significantly increase the power generation capabilities of the International Space Station.
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