The crews of the ISS and space shuttle Atlantis assemble for a group photo in the Destiny laboratory on the ISS. From the left, front row, are Peggy A. Whitson, Valery G. Korzun and Sergei Y. Treschev of the ISS. From the left, back row, are David A. Wolf, Sandra H. Magnus, Pamela A. Melroy, Jeffrey S. Ashby, Piers J. Sellers and Fyodor N. Yurchikhin who travelled to the ISS on the space shuttle Atlantis last week.
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Visitors Bring a New Piece to the ISS!
News story originally written on October 23, 2002
After living in space since June, the three people aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were excited to have visitors last week! They welcomed the six-person crew of the space shuttle Atlantis who started a big construction project that will eventually expand the space station’s laboratories.
During the Atlantis crew’s 11-day mission they added a giant new piece onto the space station. The Atlantis crew worked with the crew of the ISS to put the new piece into place during three space walks. The new piece is 45 feet long and 15 feet wide. It includes an advanced cooling system that has a giant, 75-foot radiator. After future construction projects like this one that add new pieces to the station, the new structure will be 356 feet long and hold the radiators and solar wings that are needed for future laboratories. The next piece will be added in November when the space shuttle Endeavour visits the ISS bringing both the new piece and a new ISS crew.
The space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of six returned to Earth on Friday October 18, 2002 after their 4.5 million-mile visit to the International Space Station.
Last modified October 23, 2002 by Lisa Gardiner.
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