STS-87 - 88th launch of the space shuttle under the Space Shuttle program and the 24th Columbia space flight, made on November 19, 1997 . Astronauts spent about 16 days in space and landed safely in Kennedy CC on December 5, 1997 .
| STS-87 | |
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| General information | |
| Organization | |
| Ship flight data | |
| Ship name | Colombia |
| Shuttle Flight No. | 88 |
| Launch pad | 39-b |
| Launch | November 19, 1997 19:46:00 UTC |
| Ship landing | December 5, 1997 12:20 UTC |
| Landing place | KC Kennedy (lane 33) |
| Flight duration | 15 d 16 h 34 min |
| Apogee | 286 km [1] |
| Perigee | 280 km [1] |
| Mood | 28.4 Β° [1] |
| Circulation period | 90.2 min [1] |
| Weight | 102 717 kg (orbiter with payload during landing) 4451 kg (payload) |
| NSSDC ID | 1997-073A |
| SCN | 25061 |
| Crew flight data | |
| Crew members | 6 |
| Crew photo | |
 From left to right - Sit: Lindsay, Kregel; Stand: Chawla, Scott, Doi, Kadenyuk | |
| Associated Expeditions | |
The launch into orbit and the return to Earth of the scientific satellite SPARTAN-201-4 [2] . Scientific experiments [3] .
Crew
(NASA) : Kevin Kregel (3) [4] - commander;- (NASA): Stephen Lindsay (1) - pilot;
- (NASA): Winston Scott (2) - Flight Specialist 1;
- (NASA): Kalpana Chawla (1) - Flight Specialist 2;
( JAXA ): Takao Doi (1) - Flight Specialist 3;
( GKAU ): Leonid Kadeniuk (1) - payload specialist .
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Launched SPARTAN Satellite
See also
- Space shuttle
- Timeline of manned spaceflight
Notes
- β 1 2 3 4 STS 87 - NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Trajectory Details
- β Spartan 201-4
- β Space Shuttle. Mission Archive. STS-87 on NASA's website
- β (3) - the number in brackets shows the number of space flights, including this, which this crew member made.