STS-96
Discovery launches on STS-96
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| Mission type |
ISS assembly ISS logistics |
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| Operator | NASA |
| COSPAR ID | 1999-030A |
| SATCAT no. | 25760 |
| Mission duration | 9 days, 19 hours, 13 minutes, 57 seconds |
| Distance travelled | 6,000,000 kilometres (3,700,000 mi) |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery |
| Launch mass | 118,857 kilograms (262,035 lb) |
| Landing mass | 100,230 kilograms (220,980 lb) |
| Payload mass | 9,097 kilograms (20,056 lb) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 7 |
| Members |
Kent V. Rominger Rick D. Husband Daniel T. Barry Ellen Ochoa Tamara E. Jernigan Julie Payette Valery I. Tokarev |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 27 May 1999, 10:49:42 UTC |
| Launch site | Kennedy LC-39B |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 6 June 1999, 02:02:43 UTC |
| Landing site | Kennedy SLF Runway 15 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee | 326 kilometres (203 mi) |
| Apogee | 340 kilometres (210 mi) |
| Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
| Period | 91.2 min |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port |
PMA-2 (Unity forward) |
| Docking date | 29 May 1999, 04:23 UTC |
| Undocking date | 3 June 1999, 22:39 UTC |
| Time docked | 5 days, 18 hours, 15 minutes |
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 Left to right - Front row: Rominger, Ochoa, Husband; Back row: Barry, Payette, Tokarev, Jernigan |
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STS-96 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and the first shuttle flight to dock with the International Space Station. The shuttle carried the Spacehab module in the payload, filled with cargo for station outfitting. STS-96 launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 27 May 1999 at 06:49:42 AM EDT.
Illustration of the International Space Station (ISS) during Space Shuttle flight STS-96
Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC), with among other the Russian cargo crane "STRELA", which was mounted on the ISS
STS-96 was a logistics and resupply mission for the International Space Station carrying the Spacehab Double Module (DM) 13th Spacehab overall (6th dual module use).
The Discovery carried to the ISS an Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) with parts for the Russian cargo crane STRELA, which was mounted to the exterior of the Russian station segment. Furthermore, the ICC carried the SPACEHAB Oceaneering Space System Box (SHOSS) and the "ORU Transfer Device" (OTD), an U.S. built crane.
Other payloads on STS-96 were the Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite for Heuristic International Networking Equipment (STARSHINE), the Shuttle Vibration Forces Experiment (SVF) and the Orbiter Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring – HEDS Technology Demonstration (IVHM HTD).
The STARSHINE satellite consists of an inert, 483 millimetres (19.0 in) hollow sphere covered by 1,000 evenly distributed, flat, polished mirrors, each 1 inch in diameter. The payload consists of the STARSHINE satellite, integrated with the Pallet Ejection System (PES), then mounted inside a lidless carrier. The HH equipment consists of one HH Lightweight Avionics Plate (LAP), then mounted inside a lidless carrier. Additional HH equipment consists of one Hitchhiker Ejection System Electronics (HESE), one 5.0 cubic-foot (142 L) HH canister, and one Adapter Beam Assembly (ABA). The purpose of the mission was to train international student volunteer observers to visually track this optically reflective spacecraft during morning and evening twilight intervals for several months, calculate its orbit from shared observations, and derive atmospheric density from drag-induced changes in its orbit over time.
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