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STS-86
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The KidSat camera is scheduled to fly next on STS-86 in September, 1997, on the space shuttle Endeavour. The Flight Plan hasn't been finalized yet, but the astronaut crew has been chosen, and their flight will be similar to earlier Shuttle-Mir docking flights. The KidSat portion of the flight will be similar to that of STS-76 (the first flight of the KidSat camera), and STS-81.

The Astronauts:

There will be a crew of six astronauts on STS-86. The space shuttle will drop off one of them, Wendy Lawrence, for a four month stay on Mir. The shuttle will also pick up and bring home astronaut Michael Foale, who will have been on Mir for four months. The astronauts are:

James D. Wetherbee (Commander) - Wetherbee is currently Deputy Director of Johnson Space Center. He flew as pilot on STS-32 in 1990, and was the commander on STS-52 in 1992, and STS-63 in 1995. He will be making his fourth flight into space on STS-86.

Mike Bloomfield (Pilot) - Bloomfield will be making his first space flight during STS-86. He was selected to the astronaut class of 1995 and has completed a successful year of training and evaluation to prepare for assignments to a shuttle mission.

Scott Parazynski (Mission Specialist) - Parazynski joined NASA as an astronaut in 1992, and his first flight was in 1994 on STS-66. While docked during the STS-86 mission, he will perform a 5 1/2 hour EVA with Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Titov to retrieve experiments first deployed during the STS-76 docking mission.

Vladimir Titov (Mission Specialist) - Titov is a veteran Russian cosmonaut with three space flights and more than one year of accumulated time in space. During a previous Mir flight, Titov spent a full year in orbit, at that time a human endurance record. He will become the first Russian cosmonaut to fly more than one mission on the Space Shuttle.

Jean-Loup Chretien (Mission Specialist) - Chretien has spent more than thirty-two days in space on two flights on Russian Space Stations. He was a member of the 1982 Salyut seven crew and a member of the 1988 Mir crew . STS-86 will be Chretien's third space flight, his first on the Space Shuttle.

Wendy Lawrence (Mission Specialist) - Lawrence was part of the astronaut class of 1992 and served as Director of Operations for NASA at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.


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