Launch from Cape Canaveral (KSC); landing on Cape Canaveral (KSC).

Mission USMP-4 (United States Microgravity Payload); satellite SPARTAN-201-04 was deployed but get then out of control; Scott and Doi captured the satellite with their hands during of a not planned EVA on 24.11.1997 (7h 43m); during this EVA the astronauts tested a new small crane; experiments in the field of materials science, biology (i.e. flame and fluid experiments, experiments with soybeans and moss); second (planned) EVA by Scott and Doi on 02.12.1997 (4h 59m);during this EVA the small crane again was tested; first time testing of the Autonomous EVA Robotic Camera Sprint (AERCam Sprint); this camera is in a "ball" and steered with a joystick in the Flight deck and can check every part of a shuttle (and later the ISS).