Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-87

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-87

Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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United Space Alliance

United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

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STS-87

STS-87 was a Space Shuttle mission launched from Launch Complex 39B of the Kennedy Space Center on 19 November 1997. It was the 88th flight of the Space Shuttle, and the 24th flight of Columbia. The mission goals were to conduct experiments using the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-4), conduct two EVAs, and to deploy the SPARTAN-201 experiment.

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Space Shuttle Columbia


Serial OV-102

Launch Crew Count 6

Status Destroyed

Landing Time 1997-12-05T12:20:00+0000


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Crew

Kevin R. Kregel

Commander

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1956-09-16

Status Retired

Type Government


Steven Lindsey

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1960-08-24

Status Retired

Type Government


Kalpana Chawla

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1962-03-17

Deceased 2003-02-01

Status Lost In Flight

Type Government


Leonid Kadeniuk

Payload Specialist

Nationality Ukrainian

Date Of Birth 1951-01-28

Deceased 2018-01-31

Status Deceased

Type Government


Takao Doi

Mission Specialist

Nationality Japanese

Date Of Birth 1954-09-18

Status Retired

Type Government


Winston E. Scott

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1950-08-06

Status Retired

Type Government


Space Shuttle


Height 56.10 Meters

Max Stages 2

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 28200 kN

Diameter 8.00 Meters

Mass To LEO 27500 kg

Liftoff Mass 2030 Tonnes


Launch Success 133

Consecutive Success 22

Maiden Flight 1981-04-12

Launch Failures 2


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Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.

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