Unique fact: this crew was the only one to have flown twice in a row and on the same space shuttle, the same year. This STS-83 mission, shortened due to the breakdown of a "fuel cell", was restarted with the launch of STS-94. I imagine that the members of this crew were happy to fly together again.
STS-83 was the 22nd flight of Columbia and the 14th flight of the Spacelab Long Module. This was also the 3rd shortened Shuttle Mission, after STS -2 in November 1981, also by Columbia and STS 44 in November 1991 by Atlantis, due to fault in a fuel cell. This should have been the 10th Extended Duration Orbiter Mission. Some materials processing experiments and fire-related experiments were carried out but most experiments had not been fully activated. This crew would re fly the mission 3 months later. James Halsell made his 3rd flight, his first as Commander. Susan Still, the 2nd female Shuttle pilot, made her first. Mission Specialists Donald Thomas and the late Janice Voss made their 3rd, and Michael Gernhardt his second. Payload specialists Roger Crouch and Gregory Linteris made their first and only flight.
Originally scheduled for fifteen days, the mission was aborted due to a fuel cell problem. Columbia returned to Earth on April 8, 1997. The mission was originally scheduled to end on April 19, 1997. The crew was James Halsell, Susan Still, Janice Voss, Michael Gerhardt, Donald Thomas, Roger Crouch, and Greg Linteris.
Unique fact: this crew was the only one to have flown twice in a row and on the same space shuttle, the same year. This STS-83 mission, shortened due to the breakdown of a "fuel cell", was restarted with the launch of STS-94. I imagine that the members of this crew were happy to fly together again.
That on-board landing footage was awesome!
Merci pour ces images insolites !!
STS-83 was the 22nd flight of Columbia and the 14th flight of the Spacelab Long Module. This was also the 3rd shortened Shuttle Mission, after STS -2 in November 1981, also by Columbia and STS 44 in November 1991 by Atlantis, due to fault in a fuel cell. This should have been the 10th Extended Duration Orbiter Mission. Some materials processing experiments and fire-related experiments were carried out but most experiments had not been fully activated. This crew would re fly the mission 3 months later.
James Halsell made his 3rd flight, his first as Commander. Susan Still, the 2nd female Shuttle pilot, made her first. Mission Specialists Donald Thomas and the late Janice Voss made their 3rd, and Michael Gernhardt his second. Payload specialists Roger Crouch and Gregory Linteris made their first and only flight.
Originally scheduled for fifteen days, the mission was aborted due to a fuel cell problem. Columbia returned to Earth on April 8, 1997. The mission was originally scheduled to end on April 19, 1997. The crew was James Halsell, Susan Still, Janice Voss, Michael Gerhardt, Donald Thomas, Roger Crouch, and Greg Linteris.
The year was 1997 and they still had better video than Blue Origin =))) (and amazing audio quality)
Why aren't they wearing the gloves at landing
What is always this screaming/whining noise?
Air conditioning?
They had at least a dozen of equipment (experiments) running at that moment plus the ships' equipment.
@@PeacefulCountryLife That's not the cause. It must have been something from the life support systems.
@@MASA-po2zg Yes, those are part of the "ships' equipment"
@@PeacefulCountryLife But not of any experiments that by the way didn't run in deorbit/reentry mode