Crew: 6 up/ 5 down | CDR - Kevin P. Chilton |
Plt - Richard A. Searfoss | |
MS 1 - Ronald M. Sega (PLC & IV 1) | |
MS 2 - Michael R. U. Clifford (EV 2) | |
MS 3 - Linda M. Godwin (EV 1) | |
MS 4 - Shannon W. Lucid (NASA 1) up | |
Launch | 22 March 1996 @ 0313:04 EST |
Orbital incl: | 51.65 |
Max alt: | 397.5 km. |
Orbits: | 144 |
Dur: | 9:05:15:53 |
Landing: | 31 March 1996 @ 0528:27 PST |
Launch Window: | 6 minutes, 59 seconds (3:13:04 - 3:20:03 am EST) |
TAL Sites: | Zaragoza, Spain (Alternates: Moron, Spain and Ben Guerir, Morocco) |
AOA site: | KSC (Alternates: WS) |
Primary landing site: | KSC/SLF (Scheduled: 7:42 am EST, 31 March) |
Landing Speed: | 204 knots (235 mph) |
Landing rollout: | 8,460' from main gear touchdown (2,185' from threshold) |
Vehicle weight @ liftoff: | 4,509,503 lbs |
Orbiter weight @ liftoff: | 246,345 lbs |
Orbiter weight @ landing: | 210,316 lbs |
Cargo mass approx.: | 14,888 lbs |
Landing Weight: | 12,058 lbs |
Special mission kits: | 3 EMU's, 2 SAFERS, SORG, MAR, PSA, MUP, ESC 4 CCD PLDB Cameras, 5 loaded cryo-tanks, OI-24 software (8th flight), TIPS, 6 Laptops, Mir-Shuttle VHF Radio, Laser Range Finders, Magnum Spotlight, Docking Lights, Exercycle, US-Russian EVA Tools and no RMS |
SPACEHAB - Space habitat Module, Flight Unit-2 | Total mass - 10,387 lbs. Includes 4,434 lbs of cargo for Mir (1,600 lbs of water, 1,629 lbs of science equipment, along with the Biorack: 1,938 lbs of Russian support equipment - includingdelivering and returning a Russian Gyrodyne unit, also 206 lbs of miscellaneous cargo. 135 items were exchanged between the craft. Total docked mass - 522,847 lbs. |
EVA-1 - 27 March | Duration - 6 hours, 2 minutes | First US EVA at Mir, crew attached 4 MEEP experiments to the new docking module. | Godwin and Clifford (both 1st EVA's) |
Payload Bay | TRIS (Trapped Ions in Space) & MEEP (Mir Environmental Effects Payload) |
Mid-deck | SAREX-II (Config. M), KidSat and Shuttle/Mir Mission 03 Middeck Sci. |
Docking: | 2134 EST, 23 March | Hatch open - 2340 EST |
Undocking: | Hatch close - 0815 EST, 27 March | 1908 EST, 28 March |
SSME's: | 2035 (1) - 3rd use, 2109 (2) - 16th use, 2019 (3) - 16th use. 104% at tower clear. 2035 & 2109 are Block I engines. |
OMS Pods/Engines: | LP-03/105 - Pod 20th use, Motor 18th use & RP-04/108 - Pod 16th use, Motor 20th use |
ET: | ET-77 (LWT-70) |
SRB's: | BI-079 (RSRM-46) - Set successfully recovered. |
24 October 1995 | ET-77 arrives on dock KSC |
20 November 1995 | OV-104 returns to OPF-1 following Mission-73/STS-74 |
5 February 1996 | ET-77/SRB mate in VAB High Bay-3 |
19 February 1996 | OV-104 rollover from OPF-1 to VAB High Bay for stacking overnight |
28 February 1996 | Stack rollout to Pad 39B, 1st motion 6:44 am, hard down7:30 pm (6 hour delay enroute due to crawler breakdown, to replace 2 shoes (cleats) that failed at a point just short of the pad perimeter fence) |
29 February 1996 | Spacelab payload installed into the orbiter while on hte pad (ODS installed earlier in the OPF) |
6 March 1996 | TCDT countdown dress rehearsal conducted with crew aboard the orbiter for the fina three hours of the simulated countdown (TCDT started at 8 am Tues., 5 March with T-0 at 11 am Wed., 6 March) |
18 March 1996 | "Call to stations" 43 hr countdown started at 2:00 am EST. Astronaut arrival at KSC. |
22 March 1996 | Launch |
23 - 28 March 1996 | Atlantis docks to the Mir station for 5 days of joint activities, and to drop off Shannon W. Lucid. Lucid is to return on STS-79 after 145 days in space. |
31 March 1996 | Landing at Edwards AFB, towed from the runway to the mate/demate facility - 5:35 to 7:23 pm PST |
6 April 1996 | Pilots Fitzhugh Fulton & Thomas McMurtry flying the SCA-905/OV-104 returned to Edwards AFB after 5 minutes of flight (at 5:00 pm PST) following a 'warnuing light' indication from the #3 (right inboard) engine. |
8 Apri 1996 | For safety concerns the SCA engine was replaced & full-thrust tested prior to the KSC return flight |
11 April 1996 | The SCA/OV104 combination made a refuelling stopover at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona and stayed overnight at Dyess AFB, Abilene, Texas. The SCA departed Dyess at 8:10 am 12 April, refuelling at Eglin AFB and landed on the KSC RW 15 at 1:41 pm returning to OPF-1 the next morning. |
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