MAY 2010 CONTENTS i
CONTENTS
Section PageSTS-132/ULF4 MISSION OVERVIEW ...................................................................................... 1
STS-132 TIMELINE OVERVIEW ............................................................................................... 13
MISSION PROFILE ................................................................................................................... 17
MISSION OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................ 19
MISSION PERSONNEL ............................................................................................................. 23
STS-132 CREW ....................................................................................................................... 25
PAYLOAD OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................. 33
INTEGRATED CARGO CARRIER VERTICAL LIGHT DEPLOY (ICC-VLD) ................................................... 33
MINI-RESEARCH MODULE-1................................................................................................................. 36
RENDEZVOUS & DOCKING ....................................................................................................... 39
UNDOCKING, SEPARATION AND DEPARTURE ....................................................................................... 40
SPACEWALKS ......................................................................................................................... 43
EXPERIMENTS ......................................................................................................................... 51
SHORT-DURATION EXPERIMENTS TO BE PERFORMED ON STS-132/ULF4 ............................................ 51
SAMPLES/EXPERIMENTS TO BE RETURNED ON STS-132/ULF4 ............................................................ 55
DETAILED SUPPLEMENTARY OBJECTIVES AND DETAILED TEST OBJECTIVES ....................................... 57
HISTORY OF SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS ................................................................................ 59
SHUTTLE REFERENCE DATA .................................................................................................... 63
LAUNCH AND LANDING ........................................................................................................... 81
LAUNCH ............................................................................................................................................... 81
ABORT-TO-ORBIT (ATO) ...................................................................................................................... 81
TRANSATLANTIC ABORT LANDING (TAL) ............................................................................................. 81
RETURN-TO-LAUNCH-SITE (RTLS) ....................................................................................................... 81
ABORT ONCE AROUND (AOA) ............................................................................................................... 81
LANDING ............................................................................................................................................. 81