STS-93

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STS-93 was a 1999 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for deploying the Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of NASA’s Great Observatories.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Columbia mission
NASA spaceflight
Space Shuttle mission
associatedObservatory Chandra X-ray Observatory
associatedProgram Great Observatories program
surface form: NASA Great Observatories
commander Eileen Collins
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
crewMember Catherine G. Coleman
Eileen Collins
Jeffrey S. Ashby NERFINISHED
Michel Tognini NERFINISHED
Steven A. Hawley
crewSize 5
followedBy STS-99
internationalCrewMember Michel Tognini NERFINISHED
internationalPartnerAgency CNES
isPartOf Great Observatories program
surface form: NASA Great Observatories program (via Chandra deployment)

NASA Space Shuttle program
surface form: Space Shuttle program
landingSite Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility
launchDate 1999-07-23
launchSite Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
launchVehicle Space Shuttle Columbia
launchYear 1999
missionDuration 4 days
about 4 days 22 hours
missionNumber 93
missionObjective conduct science and technology experiments
deploy Chandra X-ray Observatory into high elliptical orbit
missionPatchDepicts Chandra X-ray Observatory
Space Shuttle Columbia
missionSpecialist Catherine G. Coleman
Michel Tognini NERFINISHED
Steven A. Hawley
notableFor deployment of the Chandra X-ray Observatory
first Space Shuttle mission commanded by a woman
operatedBy NASA
orbitalInclination 28.5 degrees
orbiter Columbia
orbiterVehicleDesignation OV-102
orbitRegime Low Earth orbit
payload Chandra X-ray Observatory
Inertial Upper Stage
pilot Jeffrey S. Ashby NERFINISHED
precededBy STS-96
primaryPayload Chandra X-ray Observatory
shuttleProgramMissionNumber 95
spaceAgency NASA
spacecraft Space Shuttle Columbia

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OV-102 notableMission STS-93
STS-96 precededBy STS-93
this entity surface form: STS-96 was preceded by STS-93 in the Space Shuttle flight sequence
Steve Hawley spaceMission STS-93
Steven A. Hawley participantIn STS-93
this entity surface form: Space Shuttle mission STS-93
Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer launchVehicle STS-93
this entity surface form: Space Shuttle Columbia STS-93
HRC launchVehicle STS-93
LETGS launchVehicleOfHost STS-93
this entity surface form: Space Shuttle Columbia STS-93
Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer launchVehicle STS-93
this entity surface form: Space Shuttle Columbia STS-93