FEBRUARY 2008 CONTENTS i
CONTENTS
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STS-122 MISSION OVERVIEW: THE VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS................................................ 1
TIMELINE OVERVIEW.............................................................................................................. 9
MISSION PROFILE................................................................................................................... 11
MISSION PRIORITIES............................................................................................................. 13
MISSION PERSONNEL ............................................................................................................. 15
STS-122 ATLANTIS CREW ...................................................................................................... 17
PAYLOAD OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 27
THE EUROPEAN COLUMBUS LABORATORY ........................................................................................... 27
MOTION CONTROL SUBSYSTEM .......................................................................................................... 44
NITROGEN TANK ASSEMBLY (NTA)...................................................................................................... 45
COLUMBUS CONTROL CENTER, OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, GERMANY .......................................... 47
RENDEZVOUS AND DOCKING .................................................................................................. 51
UNDOCKING, SEPARATION, AND DEPARTURE ...................................................................................... 54
SPACEWALKS ......................................................................................................................... 57
EVA-1 .................................................................................................................................................. 58
EVA-2 .................................................................................................................................................. 60
EVA-3 .................................................................................................................................................. 61
EXPERIMENTS......................................................................................................................... 63
DETAILED TEST OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................... 63
SHORT-DURATION RESEARCH ............................................................................................................. 64
EUROPEAN EXPERIMENT PROGRAM..................................................................................................... 68
SHUTTLE REFERENCE DATA .................................................................................................... 77
LAUNCH AND LANDING ........................................................................................................... 91
LAUNCH............................................................................................................................................... 91
ABORT-TO-ORBIT (ATO)...................................................................................................................... 91