STS 85 - Space Shuttle Discovery

The deployment and retrieval of a satellite designed to study Earth's middle atmosphere along with a test of potential International Space Station hardware will highlight NASA's sixth Shuttle mission of 1997. The prime payload for the flight, the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 (CRISTA-SPAS-2) is making its second flight on the Space Shuttle (previous flight STS-66 in 1994) and is the fourth mission in a cooperative venture between the German Space Agency (DARA) and NASA.

STS-85 (86) Discovery (23) Pad 39-A (63) 86th Shuttle Mission 23rd Flight OV-103 KSC Landing (39)

Launch August 7, 1997 10:41:00.069 am EDT.
Landing KSC August 19, 1997. 7:07:59 am EDT. Runway 33.

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