APRIL 2010 CONTENTS i
CONTENTS
Section PageSTS-131/19A MISSION OVERVIEW ........................................................................................ 1
STS-131 TIMELINE OVERVIEW ............................................................................................... 11
MISSION PROFILE ................................................................................................................... 15
MISSION OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................ 17
MISSION PERSONNEL ............................................................................................................. 19
STS-131 CREW ....................................................................................................................... 21
PAYLOAD OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 31
LEONARDO MULTI-PURPOSE LOGISTICS MODULE (MPLM) FLIGHT MODULE 1 (FM1) ........................... 33
THE LIGHTWEIGHT MULTI-PURPOSE EXPERIMENT SUPPORT STRUCTURE CARRIER (LMC) ................ 44
RENDEZVOUS & DOCKING ....................................................................................................... 45
UNDOCKING, SEPARATION, AND DEPARTURE ...................................................................................... 46
SPACEWALKS ......................................................................................................................... 49
EXPERIMENTS ......................................................................................................................... 57
DETAILED TEST OBJECTIVES AND DETAILED SUPPLEMENTARY OBJECTIVES ....................................... 57
SHORT-DURATION U.S. INTEGRATED RESEARCH TO BE COMPLETED DURING STS-131/19A ............... 62
EDUCATION ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................................... 73
SHUTTLE REFERENCE DATA .................................................................................................... 75
LAUNCH AND LANDING ........................................................................................................... 93
LAUNCH ............................................................................................................................................... 93
ABORT-TO-ORBIT (ATO) ...................................................................................................................... 93
TRANSATLANTIC ABORT LANDING (TAL) ............................................................................................. 93
RETURN-TO-LAUNCH-SITE (RTLS) ....................................................................................................... 93
ABORT ONCE AROUND (AOA) ............................................................................................................... 93
LANDING ............................................................................................................................................. 93