| NASA Center: |
Kennedy Space Center |
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| Image # : |
97PC-0844 |
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| Date : |
5/24/1997
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Title
STS-84 Landing
Full Description
Framed by the Vehicle Assembly Building in the distance, at left, and the Mate-
Demate Device, the Space Shuttle Atlantis with its drag chute deployed touches
down on KSC's Runway 33 at the conclusion of STS-84 mission. The Shuttle
Training Aircraft piloted by Astronaut Kenneth D. Cockrell, acting deputy chief
of the Astronaut Office, is flying in front of Atlantis. Main gear touchdown was
at 9:27:44 a.m. EDT on May 24, 1997. The first landing opportunity was waved off
because of low cloud cover. It was the 37th landing at KSC since the Shuttle
program began in 1981, and the eighth consecutive landing at KSC.
STS-84 was the sixth of nine planned dockings of the Space Shuttle with the
Russian Space Station Mir. Atlantis was docked with the Mir for five days.
STS-84 Mission Specialist C. Michael Foale replaced astronaut and Mir 23 crew
member Jerry M. Linenger, who has been on the Russian Space Station since
January 15.
Linenger returned to Earth on Atlantis with the rest of the STS-84 crew, Mission
Commander Charles J. Precourt, Pilot Eileen Marie Collins, and Mission
Specialists Carlos I. Noriega, Edward Tsang Lu, Elena V. Kondakova of the
Russian Space Agency and Jean-Francois Clervoy of the European Space Agency.
Foale is scheduled to remain on the Mir for approximately four months, until he
is replaced by STS-86 crew member Wendy B. Lawrence in September. Besides the
docking and crew exchange, STS-84 included the transfer of more than 7,300
pounds of water, logistics and science experiments and hardware to and from the
Mir. Scientific experiments conducted during the STS-84 mission, and scheduled
for Foale's stay on the Mir, are in the fields of advanced technology, Earth
Sciences, fundamental biology, human life sciences, International Space Station
risk mitigation, microgravity sciences and space sciences.
Keywords
Atlantis STS-84 Landing Shuttle Landing Facility SLF Vehicle Assembly Building VAB
Subject Category
Space Shuttle, Shuttle-Mir, Spacecraft Landings,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
KSC
- Center Number:
97PC-0844
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-000793
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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