STS-78
Launch: June 20, 1996, 10:49:00 am EDT
Landing: July 7, 1996, 8:36:45 am EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Crew: Terence T. Henricks (Commander), Kevin R. Kregel (Pilot), Susan J. Helms (Flight Engineer), Richard M Linnehan (Mission Specialist), Charles E. Brady, Jr. (Mission Specialist), Jean-Jacques Favier (Payload Specialists), and Robert Brent Thirsk (Payload Specialists)
On the STS-78 mission, five space agencies (NASA/USA; European Space Agency/Europe; French Space Agency/France; Canadian Space Agency/Canada; and Italian Space Agency/Italy) and research scientists from 10 countries worked together on primary payload of STS-78, Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS). More than 40 experiments flown were grouped into two areas: life sciences, which included human physiology and space biology, and microgravity science, which included basic fluid physics investigations, advanced semiconductor and metal alloy materials processing, and medical research in protein crystal growth. A test that could help raise Hubble Space Telescope to higher orbit in 1997 was also conducted during the second servicing mission. Columbia's vernier Reaction Control System jets were gently pulsed to boost orbiter's altitude without jarring payloads. Same exercise could be conducted with orbiter Discovery during Mission STS-82 to raise HST's orbit without impacting its solar arrays.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts078-s-001
Date: March 1998
STS-78
Launch: June 20, 1996, 10:49:00 am EDT
Landing: July 7, 1996, 8:36:45 am EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Crew: Terence T. Henricks (Commander), Kevin R. Kregel (Pilot), Susan J. Helms (Flight Engineer), Richard M Linnehan (Mission Specialist), Charles E. Brady, Jr. (Mission Specialist), Jean-Jacques Favier (Payload Specialists), and Robert Brent Thirsk (Payload Specialists)
On the STS-78 mission, five space agencies (NASA/USA; European Space Agency/Europe; French Space Agency/France; Canadian Space Agency/Canada; and Italian Space Agency/Italy) and research scientists from 10 countries worked together on primary payload of STS-78, Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS). More than 40 experiments flown were grouped into two areas: life sciences, which included human physiology and space biology, and microgravity science, which included basic fluid physics investigations, advanced semiconductor and metal alloy materials processing, and medical research in protein crystal growth. A test that could help raise Hubble Space Telescope to higher orbit in 1997 was also conducted during the second servicing mission. Columbia's vernier Reaction Control System jets were gently pulsed to boost orbiter's altitude without jarring payloads. Same exercise could be conducted with orbiter Discovery during Mission STS-82 to raise HST's orbit without impacting its solar arrays.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts078-s-001
Date: March 1998