Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Mission Details
STS-87
The mission goals were to conduct experiments using the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-4), conduct two EVAs, and to deploy the SPARTAN-201 experiment. This mission marked the first time an EVA was performed from Columbia. An EVA from Columbia was originally planned for STS-5 in 1982, but was cancelled due to spacesuit problems. It also marked the first EVA conducted by a Japanese astronaut, Takao Doi.
Total Mass: 4,451.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Stats
1997
76th orbital launch attempt
Space Shuttle
88th mission
8th mission of 1997
87th successful mission
63rd consecutive successful mission