STS-85
Sign in to saveSTS-85 was the 23rd flight of Space Shuttle Discovery that performed multiple space science packages. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 7 August 1997. The main STS-85 payloads included the satellite known as Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 CRISTA-SPAS-02.
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- STS-85
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- Space Transportation System-85
- Spaceflight.image
- Crista-spas launch.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- The CRISTA-SPAS experiment in its ninth and final day of free flight in proximity to Discovery
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- Sts-85-patch.png
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- STS-85 mission patch
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Research
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 185
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 11 days, 20 hours, 28 minutes, 7 seconds
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
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- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 6
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- STS-85_crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Left to right – Seated: Rominger, Brown; Standing: Curbeam, Robinson, Davis, Tryggvason
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- gee
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 1019927
- Mass
- 9191
- Orbital period
- 89.6
- Image
- STS-85 launch.jpg
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- STS-85
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1997-08-07
- orbits completed
- 185
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1997-08-19
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- STS-85
- orbital inclination
- 51.6
- periapsis
- 249
- apoapsis
- 261
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STS-85 was the 23rd flight of Space Shuttle Discovery that performed multiple space science packages. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 7 August 1997. The main STS-85 payloads included the satellite known as Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 CRISTA-SPAS-02.
==Crew==
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