Human Spaceflights

International Flight No. 177

STS-70

Discovery (21)

USA

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Patch STS-70 TDRS-G STS-70 TDRS-7

Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:  13.07.1995
Launch time:  13:41 UTC
Launch site:  Cape Canaveral (KSC)
Launch pad:  39-B
Altitude:  296 km
Inclination:  28,45°
Landing date:  22.07.1995
Landing time:  12:02 UTC
Landing site:  Cape Canaveral (KSC)

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Crew STS-70

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Crew

No.   Surname Given names Position Flight No. Duration Orbits
1 USA  Henricks  Terence Thomas "Tom"  CDR 3 8d 22h 20m  142 
2 USA  Kregel  Kevin Richard  PLT 1 8d 22h 20m  142 
3 USA  Thomas  Donald Alan  MSP 2 8d 22h 20m  142 
4 USA  Currie  Nancy Jane Sherlock  MSP 2 8d 22h 20m  142 
5 USA  Weber  Mary Ellen  MSP 1 8d 22h 20m  142 

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1  Henricks
2  Kregel
3  Thomas
4  Currie
5  Weber
Space Shuttle cockpit
Landing
1  Henricks
2  Kregel
3  Weber
4  Currie
5  Thomas

Flight

Launch from Cape Canaveral (KSC); landing on Cape Canaveral (KSC).

Deploying of communications-satellite TDRS-G with the two-stage Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) solid rocket. The TDRS system is a space-based network that provides communications, tracking, telemetry, data acquisition and command services essential to the Space Shuttle and other low-Earth orbital spacecraft such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE), TOPEX-Poseidon, Landsat and many more.

Experiments in a military research program but also biological and several other secundary experiments were performed. A Shuttle window was damaged by a micrometeorite. The mission was extended one day, because of bad weather on the landing site.

Photos / Drawings

Space Shuttle STS-70 rollout
STS-70 on launch pad STS-70 launch
TDRS-G TDRS-G in payload bay
TDRS-G deploymen Algeria
traditional in-flight photo STS-70 STS-70 landing

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