abstract
| - Disovery was used to undertake a study of the hole in the ozone layer over Earth's south pole. This study led to the employment of Wilson Evergreen. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1) On 29 October in the year 1998, Discovery was launched from pad B of Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, for mission STS-95. The mission was commanded by Curtis L. Brown, Jr, and was Discovery's sixth launch. The shuttle was piloted by Steven W. Lindsey, with other crewmembers consisting of mission specialists Pedro Duque, Scott E. Parazynski, and Stephen K. Robinson, and payload specialists John Glenn and Chiaki Mukai. Discovery's mission STS-95 included testing the Hubble Space Telescope orbital systems, and Spartan 201-5 free-flyer payload deployment and retrieval. Scientific experiments included studying the effects of space travel on the aging process, specifically on astronaut John Glenn. Other science packages on board were SPACEHAB and the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker. The mission lasted nearly nine days, with Discovery touching down on 7 November. (Star Trek Magazine Issue 162: "Blast Off! Spaceflight Chronology")
|