Space Shuttle Endeavour flew STS-100 to the ISS, delivering and installing the Canadarm2 robotic arm via the first robot-to-robot handover in space. Mission specialist Chris Hadfield performed the first spacewalk by a Canadian.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 24.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 104th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 19 April 2001, 18:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2001-016
- Launches in 2001
- 16th of 59
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