Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing on Cape
Canaveral (
KSC).
Payload was the Spacehab DM. This flight was the 7th Shuttle-MIR-Mission.
Following a two day solo flight the Atlantis docked with the MIR space station
on 27.09.1997. The crew performed a common flight with the
24. MIR resident crew
(27.09. - 03.10.1997). Several supplies and equipment were brought to MIR (e.g.
a new main computer) by the space shuttle.
EVA by
Titov and
Parazynski on 02.10.1997 (5h 01m) for testing tools and
technologies needed for the
ISS and to
recover MIR Environmental Effects Payload (
MEEP),
which were attached during Mission
STS-76.
David Wolf
Wolf
replaced Michael
Foale as a member of the MIR
24th resident crew.
After separation the Shuttle-crew found two leaks in the module Spektr.
Other experiments conducted during the mission were the Commercial Protein
Crystal Growth investigation; the Cell Culture Module Experiment (CCM-A), the
Cosmic Radiation Effects and Activation Monitor (CREAM) and the Radiation
Monitoring Experiment-III (RME-III); the Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with
Pulsed Local Exhaust (SIMPLE) experiment; and the Midcourse Space Experiment.
Two NASA educational outreach programs were also conducted, Seeds in Space-II
and KidSat.
The mission extended one day, due of high winds over the
KSCs Shuttle Landing
Facility.
