Shuttle launch. Shuttle Endeavour seen from an aircraft climbing into the sky with its plume of smoke lit by the rising sun. The crew for this mission,STS-77,were: John H. Caspar,mission commander; Curtis L. Brown,pilot; Daniel W. Bursch,Mario Runco Jr.,Andrew S.W. Thomas and Marc Garneau,all mission specialists. During this mission (19-28 May 1996),the crew performed a variety of tasks,including microgravity research in the Spacehab 4 module within the shuttle's cargo bay. They also deployed and retrieved the Spartan 207 satellite and made a rendezvous with the Passive Aerodynamically- Stabilised Magnetically-Damped Satellite (PAMS) | |
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