STS-87

Launched: November 19, 1997, 2:46:00 p.m. EST

Landing: December 5, 1997, 7:20:04 a.m. EST, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Space Shuttle: Columbia

Crew: Commander Kevin R. Kregel, Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, Mission Specialists Winston E. Scott, Kalpana Chawla, Takao Doi and Leonid K. Kadenyuk.

 

Primary payload of the flight, the U.S. Microgravity Payload-4, performed well. Research using other major payload, SPARTAN-201-04 free-flyer, was not completed.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: STS087-S-001

Date: August 1997

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