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STS-86 fact sheet
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[[image - names circling clockwise]] LAWRENCE FOALE TITOV CHRETIEN BLOOMFIELD WETHERBEE PARAZYNSKI

Endeavour

Launch Date: TBA
(late September, 1997)

Duration: 9 days

Orbit:
altitude: approximately 250 miles (at docking)
inclination: 51.6 degrees

Purpose:

Dock with Mir
Transfer of astronauts (Michael Foale will leave Mir and Wendy Lawrence will take his place on the Russian Space Station)

Experiments
SpaceHab-DM
KidSat

A spacewalk to retrieve the four Mir Environmental Effects Payloads attached to the Mir's docking module.

KidSat:
The camera will be mounted for approximately 30 hours (continuously) before docking and 30 hours (continuously) after undocking.

Crew:
James D. Wetherbee (Mission Commander)
Mike Bloomfield (Pilot)
Scott Parazynski (Mission Specialist)
Vladimir Titov (Mission Specialist, Russia)
Jean-Loup Chretien (Mission Specialist, France)
Wendy Lawrence (Mission Specialist)
Michael Foale (Mission Specialist)

To find out more about STS-86 use the following URL http://shuttle.nasa.gov

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