| NASA Center: |
Kennedy Space Center |
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| Image # : |
97PC-1492 |
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| Date : |
10/6/1997
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Title
STS-86 Landing
Full Description
The orbiter drag chute deploys after the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis lands on
runway 15 of the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at the
conclusion of the nearly 11-day STS-86 mission. Main gear touchdown was at
5:55:09 p.m. EDT, October 6, 1997, with an unofficial mission-elapsed time of 10
days, 19 hours, 20 minutes and 50 seconds. The first two Kennedy Space Center
landing opportunities on Sunday were waved off because of weather concerns.
The 87th Space Shuttle mission was the 40th landing of the Shuttle at Kennedy
Space Center. On Sunday evening, the Space Shuttle program reached a milestone:
The total flight time of the Shuttle passed the two-year mark. STS-86 was the
seventh of nine planned dockings of the Space Shuttle with the Russian Space
Station Mir. STS-86 Mission Specialist David A. Wolf replaced NASA astronaut
and
Mir crew member C. Michael Foale, who has been on Mir since mid-May. Foale
returned to Earth on Atlantis with the remainder of the STS-86 crew. The other
crew members are Commander James D. Wetherbee, Pilot Michael J. Bloomfield, and
Mission Specialists Wendy B. Lawrence, Scott E. Parazynski, Vladimir Georgievich
Titov of the Russian Space Agency, and Jean-Loup J.M. Chretien of the French
Space Agency, CNES. Wolf is scheduled to remain on the Mir until the STS-89
Shuttle mission in January.
Besides the docking and crew exchange, STS-86 included the transfer of
more than 3.5 tons of science/logistical equipment and supplies betweent the two
orbiting spacecraft. Parazynski and Titov also conducted a spacewalk while
Atlantis and the Mir were docked.
Keywords
Atlantis STS-86 Landing Shuttle Landing Facility SLF
Subject Category
Space Shuttle, Shuttle-Mir, Spacecraft Landings,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
KSC
- Center Number:
97PC-1492
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-000802
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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