Discovery brings home first station crew

The March 2001 mission to the International Space Station was a complete success and will go down in the history books as the first flight for which the Space Shuttle was used as it was originally intended: a vehicle for ferrying crew and cargo to and from a space station it helped to build.

Going up was the Expedition Two crew of Yuri Usachev, Susan Helms and Jim Voss -- along with five tons of equipment and supplies in the Italian Leonardo supply module. Coming home was the Expedition One crew of Bill Shepherd, Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko -- along with a ton of trash stuffed inside Leonardo.

The mission began and ended as planned at the Kennedy Space Center. Use this page to find links to all of our stories and multimedia files, as well as our extensive mission journal.

-- Jim Banke, Senior Producer in the Cape Canaveral Bureau

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