Manned Flight n°: 182 |
Earth orbit Flight n°: 179 |
USA manned Flight n°: 102 |
Launch, orbit & landing data:
Designation | 23667 / 95048A |
Launch date - time | 07 Sep 1995 - 15:09:00 UT |
Launch site | KSC, LC39A |
Launch vehicle |
Space Shuttle |
Orbiter | Endeavour #9 (OV-105) |
Primary payload | Spartan-201 |
Mass (kg) | |
Flight Crew | Walker, Cockrell, Voss Newman, Gernhardt |
Earth orbit on : |
- Perigee / Apogee | 339 x 345 km |
- Inclination | 28.46 deg |
- Period | 91.38 min |
Landing date - time | 18 Sep 1995 - 11:37:56 UT |
Landing location | KSC, Runway 33 |
Flight Duration (d:hr:min) | 10d 20h28m |
Nbr orbits | 171 |
Distance traveled | 7,242,047 km |
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Crew
Nr. |
Surname |
Given name |
Job |
Duration |
1 |
Walker |
David Mathieson |
CDR |
10d 20h 28m |
2 |
Cockrell |
Kenneth Dale |
PLT |
10d 20h 28m |
3 |
Voss |
James Shelton |
MSP |
10d 20h 28m |
4 |
Newman |
James Hansen |
MSP |
10d 20h 28m |
5 |
Gernhardt |
Michael Landon |
MSP |
10d 20h 28m |
Mission details:
Launch from Cape Canaveral (KSC); landing on Cape
Canaveral (KSC); deploying of SPARTAN-201 research-platform and retrieval
after two days of free flying; deploying of "Wake Shield Facility" (WSF-2)
and retrieval after free flying; EVA by Voss and Gernhardt on 16.09.1995
(6h 46m) to test assembly techniques for the ISS.
07 September 1995
15:09 GMT. Duration: 10.85 days. Agency: NASA. Payload: Endeavour F08 / Spartan / WSF. Mass: 11,499 kg. Perigee: 321 km. Apogee: 321 km. Inclination: 28.5 deg. Period: 91.4 min.
Launch view of the Endeavour - Credit: NASA. |
Landing of the Endeavour - Credit: NASA. |
Deployed and retrieved Spartan 201, WSF 2. Payloads: Wake Shield Facility (WSF) 2; Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for As-tronomy (SPARTAN) 201; International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH)1; Inter-Mars Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter (ITEPC); Extravehicular Activity Development Flight Test (EDFT) 2; Capillary Pumped Loop (CAPL) 2/ getaway special (GAS) bridge assembly with five GAS payloads; Auroral Photography Experiment (APE) B; Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC); Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA), Configuration A; Electrolysis Perfor-mance Improvement Concept Study (EPICS); Space Tissue Loss (STL)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cells (C); Commercial Middeck Instrumentation Technology Associates Experiment (CMIX).
Orbiter Liftoff Mass: 116,486 kg. Orbiter Mass at Landing: 99,737 kg. Payload to Orbit: 11,499 kg. Payload Returned: 11,477 kg. EVA: James S. Voss and Michael L. Gernhardt for 6 hours, 45 minutes. Voss and Gernhardt performed a number of tasks designed to evaluate and verify specific assembly and maintenance techniques and tools for the International Space Station. They also evaluated spacesuit design modifications to protect spacewalkers from the extremely cold space environment as well as an electronic cuff checklist device worn on the wrist.
Ref.: #7, #8, #16, #207 - update: 25.03.06
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