Manned Flight nº: 188 |
Earth orbit Flight nº: 185 |
USA Flight nº: 107 |
3nd Shuttle docking with Mir
Launch, orbit & landing data:
| Designation | 23831 / 96018A |
| Launch date - time | 22 Mar 1996 - 08:13:04 UT |
| Launch site | KSC, LC39B |
| Launch vehicle |
Space Shuttle |
| Orbiter | Atlantis-F16 (OV-104) |
| Primary payload | Spacehab SH-04 |
| Mass (kg) | |
| Flight Crew | Chilton, Searfoss, Sega
Clifford, Godwin, Lucid |
| Docking date - time | 24 Mar 1996 - 02:34:05 UT UT |
| Target spacecraft/port | Mir/ |
| Earth orbit on : |
| - Perigee / Apogee | 296 km |
| - Inclination | 51.6° |
| - Period | 88.8 min |
| Undocking date - time | 29 Mar 1996 - 01:08? UT |
| Landing date - time | 31 Mar 1996 - 13:28:57 UT |
| Landing location | Edwards AFB, Runway 22 |
| Flight Duration (d:hr:min) | 9d 05h 16m |
| Nbr orbits | 144 |
| Landing crew | Chilton, Searfoss, Sega, Clifford, Godwin
(crew STS-76) |
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Lucid landed with STS-79 on 26 Sep 1996
Crew
| Nr. |
Surname |
Given name |
Job |
Duration |
| 1 |
Chilton |
Kevin Patrick |
CDR |
9d 05h 15m 53s |
| 2 |
Searfoss |
Richard Alan |
PLT |
9d 05h 15m 53s |
| 3 |
Lucid |
Matilda Shannon Wells |
MSP |
188d 04h 00m |
| 4 |
Godwin |
Linda Maxine |
MSP |
9d 05h 15m 53s |
| 5 |
Clifford |
Michael Richard Uram "Rich" |
MSP |
9d 05h 15m 53s |
| 6 |
Sega |
Ronald Michael |
MSP |
9d 05h 15m 53s |
EVA data:
| EVAs | Date | Duration | Cosmonauts |
| EVA-1 | 27 Mar 1996 | 6h 02m | Godwin Linda & Clifford Michael |
Mission details:
Launch from Cape Canaveral (KSC); landing on Edwards
AFB; small leak of hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic system, but no
Minimum Duration Flight was necessary; docking on MIR spacestation;
Shannon Lucid became member of the 21st resident crew onboard the MIR (as
research cosmonaut); during the common-flight of STS-76 and MIR Godwin and
Clifford performed an EVA on 27.03.1996 (6h 2m) to attach the Mir
Environmental Effects Payload (MEEP), including 4 different experiments,
onto handrails located on the Mir Docking Module; after 5 days of common flight separation.
Shuttle-Mir Mission 3. Docked with the Mir space station 24 March 1996; Shannon Lucid was left on Mir for an extended stay. First American EVA on Mir. Payloads: SPACEHAB/Mir 03; KidSat; Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) II, Configuration M; RME 1304—Mir/ Environmental Effects Payload (MEEP); orbiter docking system RME 1315; Trapped Ions in Space Experiment (TRIS); Extravehicular Activity Development Flight Test (EDFT) 04.
Orbits of Earth: 145. Distance traveled: 6,115,507 km. Orbiter Liftoff Mass: 111,740 kg. Orbiter Mass at Landing: 95,396 kg. Payload to Orbit: 6,753 kg. Payload Returned: 5,469 kg. Landed at: Concrete runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base, Cali. Touchdown miss distance: 677 m. Landing Rollout: 2,547 m. EVA: Linda M. Godwin and Michael R. "Rich" Clifford, 6 hours, 2 minutes, 28 seconds. Godwin and Clifford attached four experiments, known collectively as MEEP, onto handrails located on Mir's docking module. They also detached a television camera from the outside of the Mir docking module to return it to Earth, and evaluated a variety of new spacewalk-ing tools capable of being used on both the U.S. and Russian spacecraft.
Astrophilately covers:
 Launch cancel KSC. |