KSC-01PP-0811 - STS-100 MS Guidoni suits up for launch 


KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -– Happy to be suiting up for launch, STS-100 Mission Specialist
Umberto Guidoni gives thumbs up.  Guidoni is with the European Space Agency.  The 11-day
mission to the International Space Station will deliver and integrate the Spacelab Logistics
Pallet/Launch Deployment Assembly, which includes the Space Station Remote Manipulator system
and the UHF Antenna, and the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello. The mission includes
two planned spacewalks for installation of the SSRMS.  The mission is also the inaugural
flight of Raffaello, carrying resupply stowage racks and resupply/return stowage platforms.
Liftoff on mission STS-100 is scheduled at 2:41 p.m. EDT April 19.

 
                                               04/19/2001