STS-87

Kevin R. Kregel

• Birthday: 09/16/1956
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 07/13/1995
• Last Flight: 02/11/2000

Kevin Richard Kregel is an American former astronaut, and former member of the Space Launch Initiative Project at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

Steven Lindsey

• Birthday: 08/24/1960
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 11/19/1997
• Last Flight: 02/24/2011

Steven Wayne Lindsey is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Lindsey served as Chief of the NASA Astronaut Office from September 2006 until October 2009.

Leonid Kadeniuk

• Birthday: 01/28/1951
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: Ukrainian
• First Flight: 11/19/1997
• Last Flight: 11/19/1997

Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк, 28 January 1951 – 31 January 2018) was the first astronaut of independent Ukraine. He flew on NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87.

Kalpana Chawla

• Birthday: 03/17/1962
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 11/19/1997
• Last Flight: 01/16/2003

Kalpana Chawla was an American astronaut and the first female of Indian origin to go to space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. In 2003, Chawla was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. Chawla was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, and several streets, universities and institutions have been named in her honor.

Takao Doi

• Birthday: 09/18/1954
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Japanese
• First Flight: 11/19/1997
• Last Flight: 03/11/2008

Takao Doi (土井 隆雄 Doi Takao, born September 18, 1954) is a Japanese astronaut and veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions.

Doi flew as a mission specialist aboard STS-87 in 1997, during which he became the first Japanese astronaut to conduct a spacewalk.

Winston E. Scott

• Birthday: 08/06/1950
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 01/11/1996
• Last Flight: 11/19/1997

Winston Elliott Scott is a retired United States Navy Captain and former NASA astronaut. He served as a mission specialist on STS-72 in 1996 and STS-87 in 1997 logged a total of 24 days, 14 hours and 34 minutes in space, including three spacewalks totaling 19 hours and 26 minutes. Winston was also a naval pilot and flew helicopters and navy planes.

STS-87

• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

STS-87 was a Space Shuttle mission launched from Launch Complex 39B of the Kennedy Space Center on 19 November 1997. It was the 88th flight of the Space Shuttle, and the 24th flight of Columbia. The mission goals were to conduct experiments using the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-4), conduct two EVAs, and to deploy the SPARTAN-201 experiment.

Launch Complex 39B

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch Complex 39B has witnessed the launch of 58 rockets, including 57 orbital launch attempts, while Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 232 rocket launches.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

United Space Alliance

United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.