Human Spaceflights

International Flight No. 206

STS-95

Discovery (25)

USA

Patch STS-95 Patch STS-95 SPARTAN 201

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Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:  29.10.1998
Launch time:  19:19 UTC
Launch site:  Cape Canaveral (KSC)
Launch pad:  39-B
Altitude:  574 km
Inclination:  28,45°
Landing date:  07.11.1998
Landing time:  17:04 UTC
Landing site:  Cape Canaveral (KSC)

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Crew STS-95

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Crew

No.   Surname Given names Position Flight No. Duration Orbits
1 USA  Brown  Curtis Lee, Jr. "Curt"  CDR 5 8d 21h 44m  134 
2 USA  Lindsey  Steven Wayne  PLT 2 8d 21h 44m  134 
3 USA  Robinson  Stephen Kern  MSP 2 8d 21h 44m  134 
4 USA  Parazynski  Scott Edward  MSP 3 8d 21h 44m  134 
5 Spain  Duque  Pedro Francisco  MSP 1 8d 21h 44m  134 
6 Japan  Mukai  Chiaki  PSP 2 8d 21h 44m  134 
7 USA  Glenn  John Herschel, Jr.  PSP 2 8d 21h 44m  134 

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1  Brown
2  Lindsey
3  Duque
4  Parazynski
5  Robinson
6  Glenn
7  Mukai
Space Shuttle cockpit
Landing
1  Brown
2  Lindsey
3  Robinson
4  Parazynski
5  Duque
6  Glenn
7  Mukai

Flight

Launch from Cape Canaveral (KSC); landing on Cape Canaveral (KSC). Mission Spacehab-SM. During the launch the orbiter lost a flap of the parachute box. So the Discovery had to land without using the Drag Chute.

Astronaut veteran John Glenn (77) returned into space after more than 36 years. Up to date he is the oldest person to go in space. Experiments on and with John Glenn (how do older humans work and feel in space?) were done.

The SPARTAN 201-5 free-flyer was deployed and retrieved using the Shuttle's mechanical arm. It was designed to investigate physical conditions and processes of the hot outer layers of the Sun's atmosphere, or solar corona. While deployed from the Shuttle, SPARTAN gathered measurements of the solar corona and solar wind. The Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test (HOST) platform carried experiments to validate components planned for installation during the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission and to evaluate new technologies in an earth orbiting environment. The International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH) payload involves a half dozen different experiments mounted on a support structure which was carried in Discovery's payload bay.

Photos / Drawings

Space Shuttle crew in training
STS-95 rollout STS-95 on launch pad
STS-95 launch SPARTAN
Florida cockpit
traditional in-flight photo STS-95 STS-95 in orbit
STS-95 landing  

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