STS-87

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STS-87 was a 1997 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on microgravity and solar physics experiments, notable for including astronaut Kalpana Chawla among its crew.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf NASA spaceflight
Space Shuttle mission
carriedPayload Get Away Special canisters
Hitchhiker payloads
Spartan-Halley (SPARTAN-203)
surface form: Spartan 201-04
commander Kevin R. Kregel
crewMember Kalpana Chawla
Kevin R. Kregel
Leonid Kadenyuk
Steven W. Lindsey NERFINISHED
Takao Doi
Winston E. Scott
crewSize 6
evaCount 2
evaPerformedBy Takao Doi
Winston E. Scott
evaPurpose space station assembly and maintenance tests
experiment microgravity combustion experiments
microgravity materials science experiments
solar physics observations
space biology experiments
followedBy STS-89
landingDate 1997-12-05
landingSite Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility
launchDate 1997-11-19
launchMass about 115,000 kg
launchSite Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
missionDuration 15 days 16 hours 34 minutes
missionPatchFeature Spacelab missions
surface form: Space Shuttle Columbia with microgravity and solar imagery themes
missionSpecialist Kalpana Chawla
Takao Doi
Winston E. Scott
missionType microgravity research mission
solar physics research mission
notableFor deployment and recapture issues with Spartan 201
first flight of a Ukrainian astronaut Leonid Kadenyuk
first spaceflight of Kalpana Chawla
operator NASA
orbitApogee approximately 307 km
orbitInclination 28.45 degrees
orbitPerigee approximately 296 km
orbitPeriod about 90.4 minutes
orbitsCompleted 252
payloadSpecialist Leonid Kadenyuk
pilot Steven W. Lindsey NERFINISHED
precededBy STS-86
primaryPayload USMP-4
United States Microgravity Payload-4
program NASA Space Shuttle program
surface form: Space Shuttle program
spacecraft OV-102
Space Shuttle Columbia

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Kalpana Chawla notableWork STS-87
STS-89 precededBy STS-87