![]() Columbia lands at Kennedy, following an abort of the mission due to a fuel cell malfunction | |
Mission type | Microgravity research |
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Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 1997-013A |
SATCAT no. | 24755 |
Mission duration | 3 days, 23 hours, 13 minutes, 38 seconds (Planned for 15 days and 16 hours) |
Distance travelled | 2,400,000 kilometres (1,500,000 mi) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Columbia |
Launch mass | 117,546 kilograms (259,144 lb)[1] |
Landing mass | 106,724 kilograms (235,286 lb)[2] |
Payload mass | 11,377 kilograms (25,082 lb)[3] |
Crew | |
Crew size | 7 |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | April 4, 1997, 19:20:32.074 | UTC
Launch site | Kennedy, LC-39A |
End of mission | |
Landing date | April 8, 1997, 18:33 | UTC
Landing site | Kennedy, SLF Runway 33 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 298 kilometres (185 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 302 kilometres (188 mi) |
Inclination | 28.45 degrees |
Period | 90.5 min |
![]() ![]() Left to right – Front row: Voss, Halsell, Still, Thomas; Back row: Crouch, Linteris, Gernhardt |
STS-83 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission flown by Columbia. It was a science research mission that achieved orbit successfully, but the planned duration was a failure due to a technical problem with a fuel cell that resulted in the abort of the 15 day duration. Columbia returned to Earth just shy of four days. The mission was re-flown as STS-94 with the same crew later that year.