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STS-85
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Mission name STS-85
Space Shuttle Discovery
Launch pad 39-A, KSC
Launch date August 7, 1997, 9:41AM CDT
Landing August 19, 1997, 6:08AM CDT, KSC, Runway 33
Mission duration 11 days, 20 h, 28 min, 7 s
Orbital altitude 160 nautical miles (296 km)
Orbital inclination 57
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STS-85 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform multiple space science packages. STS-94 was a mission of the United States Space Shuttle Columbia, launched on 1 July 1997. STS-86 was a Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' mission to the Mir space station NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Space Shuttle Discovery ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103 is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 7, 1997. The John F Kennedy Space Center ( KSC) is the NASA Space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center ( Spaceport) on Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar

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Crew

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Jeffrey S. Ashby was originally assigned to this mission which was to be his first, but resigned from this mission to take care of his late wife, who was dying from cancer. Kent Vernon Rominger (b August 7, 1956) is a former American Astronaut, former Chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at Johnson Nancy Jan Davis (born November 1, 1953) is an American Astronaut and the current director of the Safety and Mission Assurance directorate at Stephen Kern Robinson is a NASA Astronaut. He was born October 26 1955, in Sacramento California. Robert Lee Curbeam Jr (b March 5, 1962) is a former American Astronaut, and Captain in the United States Navy. Bjarni A Tryggvason, DEng (honoris causa (born September 21, 1945) is a retired Canadian Astronaut. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The Canadian Space Agency ( CSA or in French, l' Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the Canadian government Jeffrey Shears "Bones" Ashby (born June 1954 is a former American Naval aviator and Astronaut, a veteran of three Space shuttle He was replaced by Kent Rominger and allowed to fly STS-93 instead. STS-93 marked the 95th launch of the Space Shuttle, the 26th launch of ''Columbia'', and the 21st night launch of a Space Shuttle

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Mission highlights

The deployment and retrieval of a satellite designed to study Earth's middle atmosphere along with a test of potential International Space Station hardware highlighted NASA's sixth Shuttle mission of 1997. The prime payload for the flight, the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 (CRISTA-SPAS-2) made its second flight on the Space Shuttle (previous flight STS-66 in 1994) and was the fourth mission in a cooperative venture between the German Space Agency (DARA) and NASA. STS-66 is a Space Shuttle program mission Crew Donald R McMonagle (3 Commander Curtis L

During the flight, Davis used Discovery's robot arm to deploy the CRISTA-SPAS payload for about 9 days of free-flight. CRISTA-SPAS consists of three telescopes and four spectrometers that measured trace gases and dynamics of the Earth's middle atmosphere. Davis also operated the robot arm for CRISTA-SPAS retrieval. The Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) on which the scientific instruments were mounted is a self-contained platform that provides power, command, control and communication with Discovery during free-flight.

Two other instruments mounted on the SPAS also studied the Earth's atmosphere. The Middle Atmosphere High Resolution Spectrograph Instrument (MAHRSI) measured hydroxyl and nitric oxide by sensing UV radiation emitted and scattered by the atmosphere, while the Surface Effects Sample Monitor (SESAM) was a passive carrier for state-of-the-art optical surfaces to study the impact of the atomic oxygen and the space environment on materials and services.

The crew also supported the Manipulator Flight Demonstration (MFD) experiment being sponsored by NASDA, the Japanese Space Agency. MFD consists of three separate experiments located on a support truss in the payload bay. The primary objective was to demonstrate the newly designed dexterous robot arm in the space environment, before installing on the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) of the International Space Station.

Several Hitchhiker payloads, including the Technology Applications and Science Payload (TAS-01), the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (SEH), and the Ultraviolet Spectrograph Telescope for Astronomical Research (UVSTAR) were housed in Discovery's payload bay, operating independently of crew support during the flight.

The Microgravity Vibration Isolation Mount (MIM) experiment was operated by Canadian Space Agency astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason. The MIM experiment is a small double-locker size device designed to isolate International Space Station payloads and experiments from disturbances created by thruster firings or crew activity. MIM was operated for 30 hours with real-time data transmission to investigators on the ground. (Reference NASA Press Release 96-224)

Another experiment onboard STS-85 was the Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System (SWUIS-01) from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) along with scientific collaborators from JPL, APL, and the University of Maryland. SWUIS (pronounced, "swiss") is a wide-field UV imager to which was used to observe comet Hale-Bopp. It is based around an 18-cm Maksutov UV telescope and a UV-sensitive, Xybion image-intensified CCD camera that frames at video rates (30 Hz). The Maksutov is a Catadioptric Telescope design that employs a full diameter meniscus lens (commonly called a "corrector plate" to correct Each SWUIS observation period lasted approximately 3 hours, and garnered aapproximately 10^5 images in up to 7 filter bandpasses. SWUIS was operated from a 2-axis mount inside the Shuttle mid-deck cockpit, and looked out of the Shuttle through a quartz window. SWUIS can be pointed anywhere in a 4. 5 deg cone around the centerline of the comet. Mission specialists set up and operated the instrument.

On Day 8, the crew was awakened by the song "You Will Go to the Moon" by Canadian artists Moxy Früvous, selected by astronaut Marc Garneau, the first Canadian in space. Moxy Früvous was a socially conscious and politically satirical Folk-pop band from Thornhill Ontario, Canada. Captain Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau CC, CD, FCASI (born February 23, 1949) was the first Canadian in space Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page

The mission lasted a day longer than originally planned due to a threat of ground fog at Kennedy Space Center. Fog is a cloud that is in contact with the ground Stratus clouds are usually the only clouds that touch the ground The John F Kennedy Space Center ( KSC) is the NASA Space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center ( Spaceport) on

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