STS-85

Mission Insignia
STS-85 Patch
Mission Statistics
Mission:	STS-85
Shuttle:	Discovery
Launch Pad:	39-A, Kennedy Space Center
Launch:	9:41AM CDT, August 7, 1997
Landing:	6:08AM CDT, August 19,1997, Runway 33, Kennedy Space Center
Duration:	11 days, 20 h, 28 min, 7 s
Orbit Altitude:	160 nautical miles (296 km)
Orbit Inclination:	57
Distance traveled:	4.7 million miles (7.6 million km)
Crew photo
STS-85 Crew

Table of contents

1 Crew 2 Mission Highlights 3 Related articles 4 External Links

Crew

• Mission Commander: Curtis Brown
• Pilot: Kent Rominger
• Mission Specialist 1: Jan Davis
• Mission Specialist 2: Stephen Robinson
• Mission Specialist 3: Robert Curbeam
• Payload Specialist: Bjarni Tryggvason (Canadian)

The purposes of the mission were to deploy and retrieve the CRISTA-SPAS satellite, designed to study Earth's middle atmosphere, test a robot arm designed for the International Space Station, operate the Microgravity vibration isolation mount experiment, and observe ultraviolet radiation from the Comet Hale-Bopp.

The mission lasted a day longer than originally planned due to a threat of ground fog at Kennedy Space Center.

Related articles

• Space science
• Space shuttle
• List of space shuttle missions
• List of human spaceflights chronologically

• NASA mission summary