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STS-95

Launched: October 29, 1998, 2:19:34 p.m. EST

Landing: November 7, 1998, 12:04:00 p.m. EST, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Space Shuttle: Discovery

Crew: Commander Curtis L. Brown, Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, Mission Specialists Scott E. Parazynski, Stephen K. Robinson, Pedro Duque, Payload Specialists Chiaki Mukai and John H. Glenn.

 

The primary objectives of STS-95 included conducting a variety of science experiments in the pressurized SPACEHAB module, the deployment and retrieval of the Spartan free-flyer payload, and operations with the Hubble Space Telescope Orbiting Systems Test (HOST) and the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker payloads being carried in the payload bay. The scientific research mission also returned space pioneer John Glenn to orbit—36 years, eight months and nine days after he became the first American to orbit the Earth.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: STS095-s-001

Date: June 1998

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