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STS-86 fact sheet

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Endeavour

Launch Date: TBA
(most likely late September, 1997)

Duration: 9 days

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

Purpose:
Dock with Mir
  Transfer of Astronauts (Michel 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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