Shuttle launch. Launch of the space shuttle Columbia from Cape Canaveral in Florida,USA,at the beginning of mission STS-87 on 19 November 1997. Aboard were astronauts Kevin Kregel,Stephen Lindsay,Winston Scott,Kalpana Chawla,Takao Doi and Leonid Kadenyuk. Doi and Kadenyuk are Japanese and Ukrainian respectively. Doi was scheduled to make the first-ever Japanese spacewalk (Extra Vehicular Activity) during the mission. During the 16-day mission,the crew also performed research with the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-4) and worked with Spartan 201,a satellite which is released from the shuttle to provide a platform for short-term experiments | |
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