STS-97
Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105
United Space Alliance
Crew
Brent W. Jett Jr.
Status: Retired
10/5/1958 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 1/11/1996
Last Flight: 9/9/2006
Brent Ward Jett Jr. is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace and aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut.
Michael J. Bloomfield
Status: Retired
3/16/1959 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 9/26/1997
Last Flight: 4/8/2002
Michael John "Bloomer" Bloomfield is an American former astronaut and a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions.
Carlos I. Noriega
Status: Retired
10/8/1959 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 5/15/1997
Last Flight: 12/1/2000
Carlos Ismael Noriega is a Peruvian and U.S. citizen, NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
Marc Garneau
Status: Retired
2/23/1949 -
Nationality: Canadian
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/5/1984
Last Flight: 12/1/2000
Garneau was one of the first Canadian Astronauts and he became the first Canadian in outer space in October 1984. In 1984, he was seconded to the new Canadian Astronaut Program (CAP), one of six chosen from over 4,000 applicants. He flew on the shuttle Challenger, STS-41-G from October 5 to 13, 1984, as payload specialist. He was promoted to Captain in 1986, and left the Navy in 1989, to become deputy director of the CAP. In 1992–93, he underwent further training to become a mission specialist. He worked as CAPCOM for a number of shuttle flights and was on two further flights himself: STS-77 (May 19 to 29, 1996) and STS-97 (to the ISS, November 30 to December 11, 2000). He has logged over 677 hours in space.
In February 2001, he was appointed executive vice-president of the Canadian Space Agency, and became its president on November 22, 2001.
Joseph R. Tanner
Status: Retired
1/21/1950 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/3/1994
Last Flight: 9/9/2006
Joseph Richard "Joe" Tanner is an American instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder, mechanical engineer, a former naval officer and aviator, and a former NASA astronaut. He was born in Danville, Illinois. He is unusual among astronauts as he did not have a background in flight test nor did he earn any advanced academic degrees. Typically those who did not do military flight test have an M.D. or Ph.D., if not a master's, whereas Tanner's path to becoming an astronaut followed operational military flying and then into NASA for operational jet training before being selected into the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1992, following an unsuccessful application in 1987.
Mission
STS-97
Type: Human Exploration
STS-97 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. The crew installed the first set of solar arrays to the ISS, prepared a docking port for arrival of the Destiny Laboratory Module, and delivered supplies for the station’s crew.
Trajectory
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Location
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
223 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
Agency
United Space Alliance – USA
- Type: Commercial
- Abbreviation: USA
- Founded: 1995
- Launchers: Space Shuttle
- Country: USA
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.
