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| Flight | Launch | Landing | Name | Country | Parameters | |
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| STS-81 | January 12, 1997 (09:27 GMT) |
January 22, 1997 (14:23 GMT) |
Commander: Michael Baker (4th Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | Perigee: 296 km Apogee: 296 km Inclination: 51.6° 160 orbits |
| Pilot: Brent Jett (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Peter "Jeff" Wisoff (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
34th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Mission Specialist 2: John Grunsfeld (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | NASA 4 Crew 1 spacewalk |
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| Mission Specialist 3: Marsha Ivins (4th Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) (18th Mission) |
Docked with Mir January 15, 1997 (03:54 GMT) (Kristall) |
Undocked from Mir January 20, 1997 (02:15 GMT) (Kristall) |
Researcher: Jerry Linenger (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14 - NASA 4 Mission) (Down - STS-84) (132 days 4 hours 0 minutes) |
USA | M | Time 10 days 4 hours 55 minutes |
| Backup NASA 4 Researcher: Michael Foale | USA | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TM-25 (7K-STM #74) |
February 10, 1997 (14:09 GMT) |
August 14, 1997 (12:17 GMT) |
Commander: Vasili Tsibliyev (2nd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 8) |
Russia | M | Perigee: 192 km Apogee: 250 km Inclination: 51.6° 2,926 orbits 1 spacewalk |
| Flight Engineer: Aleksandr Lazutkin (1st Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 10) |
Russia | M | ||||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
170 km SE of Dzhezkazgan (46° 46' N, 69° 42' E) |
Researcher: Reinhold Ewald (1st Flight) (DARA/DLR Group 3 - Mir '97 Mission) (Down - Soyuz TM-24) (19 days 16 hours 34 minutes) |
Germany | M | ||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Docked with Mir February 12, 1997 (15:51 GMT) (Forward Port) |
Undocked from Mir August 14, 1997 (08:55 GMT) (Forward Port) |
Backup Crew: Talgat Musabayev | Kazakhstan | M | Time 185 days 22 hour 7 minutes |
| Backup Crew: Nikolai Budarin | Russia | M | ||||
| Backup Crew: Hans Schlegel | Germany | M | ||||
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| STS-82 | February 11, 1997 (08:55 GMT) |
February 21, 1997 (08:32 GMT) |
Commander: Kenneth Bowersox (4th Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | Perigee: 579 km Apogee: 579 km Inclination: 28.45° 150 orbits 5 spacewalks |
| Pilot: Scott Horowitz (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Joseph Tanner (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
35th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 2: Steven Hawley (4th Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||
| Mission Specialist 3: Gregory Harbaugh (4th Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (22nd Mission) |
Grappled Hubble February 13, 1997 (08:34 GMT) |
Released Hubble February 19, 1997 (06:41 GMT) |
Mission Specialist 4: Mark Lee (4th Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | M | Time 9 days 23 hours 37 minutes |
| Mission Specialist 5: Steven Smith (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
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| STS-83 | April 4, 1997 (19:20 GMT) |
April 8, 1997 (18:33 GMT) |
Commander: James Halsell (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | Perigee: 296 km Apogee: 296 km Inclination: 28.45° 64 orbits |
| Pilot: Susan Still (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Janice Voss (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Michael Gernhardt (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Donald Thomas (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) (22nd Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
36th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Payload Specialist 1: Roger Crouch (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for MSL-1) |
USA | M | Time 3 days 23 hours 12 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Gregory Linteris (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for MSL-1) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Paul Ronney | USA | M | ||||
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| STS-84 | May 15, 1997 (08:07 GMT) |
May 24, 1997 (13:28 GMT) |
Commander: Charles Precourt (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | Perigee: 296 km Apogee: 296 km Inclination: 51.6° 144 orbits |
| Pilot: Eileen Collins (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Jean-François Clervoy (2nd Flight) (ESA Group 2) (NASA Group 14) |
France | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Carlos Noriega (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
37th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Mission Specialist 3: Edward Lu (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | NASA 5 Crew 1 spacewalk |
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| Mission Specialist 4: Yelena Kondakova (2nd Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 9) |
Russia | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) (19th Mission) |
Docked with Mir May 17, 1997 (02:33 GMT) (Kristall) |
Undocked from Mir May 22, 1997 (01:04 GMT) (Kristall) |
Researcher: Michael Foale (4th Flight) (NASA Group 12 - NASA 5 Mission) (Down - STS-86) (144 days 13 hours 47 minutes) |
USA | M | Time 9 days 5 hours 19 minutes |
| Backup NASA 5 Researcher: James Voss | USA | M | ||||
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| STS-94 | July 1, 1997 (18:02 GMT) |
July 17, 1997 (10:47 GMT) |
Commander: James Halsell (4th Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | Perigee: 296 km Apogee: 296 km Inclination: 28.45° 251 orbits |
| Pilot: Susan Still (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Janice Voss (4th Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Michael Gernhardt (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Donald Thomas (4th Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) (23rd Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
38th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Payload Specialist 1: Roger Crouch (2nd Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for MSL-1R) |
USA | M | Time 15 days 16 hours 44 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Gregory Linteris (2nd Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for MSL-1R) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Paul Ronney | USA | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TM-26 (7K-STM #75) |
August 5, 1997 (15:35 GMT) |
February 19, 1998 (09:10 GMT) |
Commander: Anatoli Soloviyov (5th Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 6) |
Russia | M | Perigee: 193 km Apogee: 249 km Inclination: 51.6° 3,128 orbits 7 spacewalks |
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
30 km from Arkalyk (50° 11' N, 67° 31' E) |
Flight Engineer: Pavel Vinogradov (1st Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 10) |
Russia | M | ||
| Docked with Mir August 7, 1997 (17:02 GMT) (Kvant) |
Undocked from Mir February 19, 1998 (05:52 GMT) (Forward Port) |
Backup Crew: Gennadi Padalka | Russia | M | Time 191 days 17 hours 34 minutes |
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| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Port Relocation August 15, 1997 (13:29 GMT - 14:13 GMT) (Kvant to Forward Port) |
Backup Crew: Sergei Avdeyev | Russia | M | ||
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| STS-85 | August 7, 1997 (14:41 GMT) |
August 19, 1997 (11:09 GMT) |
Commander: Curtis Brown (4th Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | Perigee: 320 km Apogee: 320 km Inclination: 57° 190 orbits |
| Pilot: Kent Rominger (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Jan Davis (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (23rd Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
39th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Mission Specialist 2: Robert Curbeam (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | Time 11 days 20 hours 26 minutes |
| Mission Specialist 3: Stephen Robinson (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Payload Specialist 1: Bjarni Tryggvason (1st Flight) (CSA Group 1) |
Canada | M | ||||
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| STS-86 | September 26, 1997 (02:34 GMT) |
October 6, 1997 (21:56 GMT) |
Commander: James Wetherbee (4th Flight) (NASA Group 10) |
USA | M | Perigee: 296 km Apogee: 296 km Inclination: 51.6° 170 orbits |
| Pilot: Michael Bloomfield (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Vladimir Titov (4th Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 6) |
Russia | M | STS-86 Mission 1 spacewalk |
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| Mission Specialist 2: Scott Parazynski (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
40th landing Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 3: Jean-Loup Chrétien (3rd Flight) (CNES Group 1) (NASA Group 15) |
France | M | NASA 6 Mission 1 spacewalk |
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| Mission Specialist 4: Wendy Lawrence (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) (20th Mission) |
Docked with Mir September 27, 1997 (19:58 GMT) (Kristall) |
Undocked from Mir October 3, 1997 (17:28 GMT) (Kristall) |
Researcher: David Wolf (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 13 - NASA 6 Mission) (Down - STS-89) (127 days 20 hours 0 minutes) |
USA | M | Time 10 days 19 hours 20 minutes |
| Backup NASA 6 Researcher: Andrew Thomas | USA | M | ||||
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| STS-87 | November 19, 1997 (19:46 GMT) |
December 5, 1997 (12:20 GMT) |
Commander: Kevin Kregel (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | Perigee: 277 km Apogee: 277 km Inclination: 28.45° 252 orbits 2 spacewalks |
| Pilot: Steven Lindsey (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Kalpana Chawla (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Winston Scott (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) (24th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
41st landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Mission Specialist 3: Takao Doi (1st Flight) (NASDA Group 1) (NASA Group 15) |
Japan | M | Time 15 days 16 hours 34 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 1: Leonid Kadenyuk (1st Flight) (Ukrainian Payload Specialist) |
Ukraine | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Yaroslav Pustovyi | Ukraine | M | ||||
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