STS-83
Sign in to saveSTS-83 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission flown by . It was a science research mission that achieved orbit successfully, but the planned duration was a failure due to a technical problem with a fuel cell that resulted in the abort of the 15 day duration. Columbia returned to Earth just shy of four days. The mission was re-flown as STS-94 with the same crew later that year.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-83
- Spaceflight.image
- STS-83 landing.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Columbia lands at Kennedy, following an abort of the mission due to a fuel cell malfunction
- Spaceflight.insignia
- Sts-83-patch.png
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Microgravity research
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- Actual: Planned: 15days and 16hours
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC (14:20:32 EST)
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (14:33:11 EDT)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 7
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- STS-83_crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Back row, from left: Crouch, Linteris and GernhardtFront row: Voss, Halsell, Still and Thomas
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 90.5 minutes
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 342818
- Mass
- 11377
- Orbital period
- 90.5
- Image
- STS-83 landing.jpg
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- Commons category
- STS-83
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1997-04-04
- orbits completed
- 63
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1997-04-08
- Commons gallery
- STS-83
- orbital inclination
- 28.45
- periapsis
- 298
- apoapsis
- 302
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7 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Reflight
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-83 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission flown by . It was a science research mission that achieved orbit successfully, but the planned duration was a failure due to a technical problem with a fuel cell that resulted in the abort of the 15 day duration. Columbia returned to Earth just shy of four days. The mission was re-flown as STS-94 with the same crew later that year.
==Crew==