John Herrington, a member of the Chickasaw Nation, became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. Gus Loria was originally scheduled to fly as the pilot for this mission, but was replaced due to an injury. STS-113 was the last successful mission before STS-107. This payload deployed two small satellites which are connected via a 15 metres (49 ft) tether. The landing was the first (and only) time a mission ended on the fourth day of landing attempts.Īlso carried aboard STS-113 was the Micro-Electromechanical System ( MEMS) based Pico Satellite Inspector (MEPSI). It was the 19th flight of Endeavour, the 112th shuttle mission, and the 16th shuttle mission to the station. STS-113 came to a close when Endeavour glided in to a landing at Kennedy Space Center on 7 December. The Expedition 5 crew returned to Earth aboard STS-113, ending a 185-day stay in space. STS-113 delivered the Expedition 6 crew to the station for a four-month increment. The STS-113 crew and both Expedition crews transferred about 1,969 kilograms (4,340 pounds) of cargo between the shuttle and station. Mission Specialists John Herrington and Michael López-Alegría performed three spacewalks to activate and outfit the P1.
STS-113 was an Assembly Mission (11A) to the International Space Station, delivering the P1 Truss segment, which provides structural support for the Space Station radiators. This was the last flight of Endeavour before entering its Orbiter Major Modification period until STS-118 in 2007 which include modernizing the cockpit, and also the penultimate shuttle mission before the Columbia disaster. With Commander Jim Wetherbee and Pilot Paul Lockhart at the controls, Endeavour docked with the station on 25 November 2002 to begin seven days of station assembly, spacewalks and crew and equipment transfers. During the 14-day mission in late 2002, Endeavour and its crew extended the ISS backbone with the P1 truss and exchanged the Expedition 5 and Expedition 6 crews aboard the station. The tow Tundra will replace the existing Tundra and will be on display after the Endeavour exhibit opens on October 30.STS-113 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. It currently has a Tundra on display in a Science Center exhibit demonstrating the physics of leverage. Toyota already has an ongoing partnership with the Science Center to provide support and awareness of the space program and continuing education of the public through exhibits and programs. Did they spend millions for the privilege? No. You might be wondering how Toyota managed to pull off this job. "The entire journey is something the world will be watching, and gives us a chance to prove that the `overbuilt' Tundra is built to do any job – even tow the space shuttle." space program's success than the shuttle, and to have it towed by the Toyota Tundra is not only an incredible example of the capabilities of the truck, but an honor to be part of history," said Ed Laukes, Toyota Motor Sales vice president of marketing communications. "There is no larger or more recognizable icon of the U.S. However the Science Center and its sponsors will be planting many more new trees and restoring infrastructure in an "enforced" urban renewal plan, so to speak. Hundreds of trees have also been chopped down. Since the Endeavor has a 78 foot wing span and an overall height of 58 feet at the tip of its tail, while being moved, power lines and street lights have had to be removed from its path. Most of the journey will be made using a specially constructed self-powered rig that will carry the 172,000 lbs space shuttle. The shuttle will travel a total of 12 miles as it traverses city streets – the first and last time for any space shuttle. The whole endeavor has been aptly named Mission 26: The Final Endeavour. A stock Toyota Tundra will tow the Endeavour Space Shuttle as it crosses the 405 freeway soon after it leaves Los Angeles Airport on its epic journey through the streets of Los Angeles to its final resting place at the California Science Center just south of downtown Los Angeles. It looks like a Toyota Tundra pickup will be grabbing headlines tomorrow in what has to be one of the best promotional marketing coups of the year.
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