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	Topics STS-92 Topic Home Crew Brian DuffyBrian Duffy Brian Duffy is a former NASA astronaut. ... (4), Commander Pamela A. Melroy (1), Pilot William S. McArthurWilliam S. McArthur William Surles McArthur, Jr. is an American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one mission to the I... (3), Mission Specialist 2 Leroy ChiaoLeroy Chiao Leroy Norman Chiao, Ph.D. is a former American NASA astronaut who was stationed on board the International Space Station bet... (3), Mission Specialist 1 Peter J.K. WisoffPeter J.K. Wisoff Peter Jeffrey Kelsay "Jeff" Wisoff is a NASA Astronaut.... (4), Mission Specialist 3 Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (2), Mission Specialist 4 Koichi WakataKoichi Wakata Koichi Wakata is a Japanese astronaut and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions.... (2), Mission Specialist 5 - NASDAJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency The , or , is Japan's national aerospace agency.... Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission. Mission parameters MassMass Mass is a property of a physical object that quantifies the amount of matter and energy it is equivalent to.... : Orbiter Liftoff: 115,127 kg Orbiter Landing: 92,741 kg Payload: 9,513 kg Perigee: 386 km Apogee: 394 km InclinationInclination Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or axis of direction.... : 51.6° PeriodOrbital period The orbital period is the time it takes a planet to make one full orbit.... : 92.3 min Docking with ISS Docked: October 13, 2000, 17:45:10 UTC Undocked: October 20, 2000, 15:08:39 UTC Time Docked: 6 days, 21 h, 23 min, 29 s Space walks *Chiao and McArthur* - EVA 1 EVA 1 Start: October 15, 2000 - 14:27 UTC EVA 1 End: October 15, - 20:55 UTC Duration: 6 hours, 28 minutes *Lopez-Alegria and Wisoff* - EVA 2 EVA 2 Start: October 16, 2000 - 14:15 UTC EVA 2 End: October 16, - 21:22 UTC Duration: 7 hours, 07 minutes *Chiao and McArthur* - EVA 3 EVA 3 Start: October 17, 2000 - 14:30 UTC EVA 3 End: October 17, - 21:18 UTC Duration: 6 hours, 48 minutes *Lopez-Alegria and Wisoff* - EVA 4 EVA 4 Start: October 18, 2000 - 15:00 UTC EVA 4 End: October 18, - 21:56 UTC Duration: 6 hours, 56 minutes Mission highlights STS-92 was an ISS assembly flight that brought the Z-1 Truss, Control Moment Gyros, Pressurized Mating AdapterPressurized Mating Adapter The International Space Station uses three Pressurized Mating Adapters to interconnect spacecraft and modules with differe... -3 (PMA-3) (mounted on a Spacelab pallet) and two DDCU (Heat pipes) to the space station. ITS Z1 is an early exterior framework to allow the first U.S. solar arrays on flight 4A to be temporarily installed on Unity for early power. The Ku-band communication system supports early science capability and U.S. television on 6A. The CMGs (Control Moment Gyros) weigh about 600 lb (27 kg) and provide non-propulsive (electrically powered) attitude control when activated on 5A, and PMA-3 provides shuttle docking port for solar array installation on 4A, Lab installation on 5A. The mission included seven days docked with the ISS, four EVAs and two ingress opportunities. Over the course of four scheduled spacewalks, two teams of space walkers and an experienced robot arm operator collaborated to install the Z1 (Z for zenith port) truss structure on top of the U.S. Unity connecting node on the growing station and to deliver the third Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA 3) to the ISS for the future berthing of new station components and to accommodate shuttle dockings. The Z1 truss was the first permanent lattice-work structure for the ISS, very much like a girder, setting the stage for the future addition of the station's major trusses or backbones. The Z1 fixture also served as the platform on which the huge U.S. solar arrays were mounted on the next shuttle assembly flight, STS-97STS-97 This is a mission of the United States Space Shuttle ... . The Z1 contains four large gyroscopic devices, called Control Moment GyroscopeControl moment gyroscope Control moment gyro is an attitude control device generally used in satellite attitude control systems.... (CMGs), which are used to maneuver the ISS into the proper orientation on orbit once they were activated following the installation of the U.S. laboratory. See also Space scienceSpace science Space science, or the space sciences, are fields of science that are concerned with the study or utilization of outer space.... Space shuttleSpace Shuttle NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System , is the United States government's current manned... List of space shuttle missionsList of space shuttle missions -\|\|}This is a list of missions flown by space shuttles.... List of human spaceflights chronologicallyList of human spaceflights chronologically Some debate exists over the definition of space, and hence that of spaceflight.... List of ISS spacewalksList of ISS spacewalks This is a list of extra-vehicular activities at the International Space Station, a joint project of 6 space agencies: the U.... List of spacewalks External links