STS-91
Sign in to saveSTS-91 was the 24th flight of Discovery, and the final Space Shuttle mission to the Mir space station. It was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 2 June 1998.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-91
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-91
- Spaceflight.image
- STS-91 Landing.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Discovery lands at Kennedy, concluding the last mission in the Shuttle–Mir program
- Spaceflight.insignia
- Sts-91-patch.png
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Shuttle-Mir
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 9 days, 19 hours, 54 minutes, 2 seconds
- Spaceflight.launch_mass
- 134,434kg
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 15
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 6 up7 down
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- STS-91_crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Left to right – Front: Gorie, Precourt; Back: Lawrence, Chang-Diaz, Kavandi, Ryumin, Thomas
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-95
- Follows
- STS-90
- Duration
- 849242
- Mass
- 16537
- Orbital period
- 91.8
- Image
- STS-91 Landing.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- Commons category
- STS-91
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1998-06-02
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- crew members
- Andy Thomas
- vessel
- Discovery
- location of landing
- Launch and Landing Facility
- orbits completed
- 155
- Commons gallery
- STS-91
- orbital inclination
- 51.6
- periapsis
- 350
- apoapsis
- 373
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1998-06-12
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-91 was the 24th flight of Discovery, and the final Space Shuttle mission to the Mir space station. It was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 2 June 1998.
==Crew==
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