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![]() The CRISTA-SPAS experiment in its ninth and final day of free flight in proximity to Discovery | |
Names | Space Transportation System-85 |
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Mission type | Research |
Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 1997-039A |
SATCAT no. | 24889 |
Mission duration | 11 days, 20 hours, 28 minutes, 7 seconds |
Distance travelled | 7,600,000 kilometres (4,700,000 mi) |
Orbits completed | 185 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery |
Payload mass | 9,191 kilograms (20,263 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 7 August 1997, 14:41 | UTC
Launch site | Kennedy, LC-39A |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 19 August 1997, 11:08 | UTC
Landing site | Kennedy, SLF Runway 33 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 249 kilometres (155 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 261 kilometres (162 mi) |
Inclination | 57.0 degrees |
Period | 89.6 minutes |
![]() STS-85 mission patch ![]() Left to right – Seated: Rominger, Brown; Standing: Curbeam, Robinson, Davis, Tryggvason |
STS-85 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform multiple space science packages. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 7 August 1997. A major experiment was the CRISTA-SPAS free-flyer which had various telescopes on board.