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Mission Objectives
The primary mission objectives are to successfully perform the planned
operations of the four primary payloads: SPACEHAB, HOST, IEH-03, and
SPARTAN-201.
Crew
Commander:
Curtis L. Brown
Pilot:
Steven W. Lindsey
Mission Specialist 1:
Stephen K. Robinson
Mission Specialist 2:
Scott E. Parazynski
Mission Specialist 3:
Pedro Duque
Payload Specialist 1:
Chiaki Mukai
Payload Specialist 2:
John H. Glenn
Launch
Orbiter:
Discovery OV103
Launch Site:
Pad 39-B Kennedy Space Center
Launch Window:
2 hours, 30 minutes
Altitude:
300 nautical miles
Inclination:
28.45 degrees
Duration:
8 Days 21 Hrs. 50 Min.
Shuttle Liftoff Weight:
4,521,918 lbs.
Software Version:
OI-26B
Super Light Weight Tank
Abort Landing Sites
RTLS: Shuttle Landing Facility, KSC
TAL: Banjul, The Gambia; Ben Guerir, Morocco; Moron, Spain
AOA: Edwards Air Force Base, California
Space Shuttle Main Engines
SSME 1: #2048
SSME 2: #2043
SSME 3: #2045
Landing
Landing Date:
11/07/98
Landing Time:
11:50 AM (eastern time)
Primary Landing Site:
Shuttle Landing Facility, KSC
Orbiter/Payload Weight at
Landing:
227,783 lbs.
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STS095-(S)-002 (JUNE 1998) --- Five
astronauts based at the Johnson Space
Center (JSC) and two payload specialists
take a break from their training schedule to
pose for the STS-95 pre-flight portrait.
Seated are astronauts Curtis L. Brown Jr.
(right), mission commander; and Steven
W. Lindsey, pilot. Standing, from the left,
are Scott F. Parazynski and Stephen K.
Robinson, both mission specialists; Chiaki
Mukai, payload specialist representing
Japan's National Space Development
Agency (NASDA); Pedro Duque, mission
specialist representing the European Space
Agency (ESA); and U.S. Sen. John H.
Glenn Jr., payload specialist. The seven are
scheduled to be launched into Earth orbit
aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in late
October of this year.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- After its Rotational Service Structure is rolled back, the
Space Shuttle Discovery awaits the dawn of day on its scheduled day of launch on mission STS-95
at Launch Pad 39B. Liftoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Oct. 29. The STS-95 mission is expected to
last almost 9 days, with a landing at KSC at 11:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 7.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Onlookers applaud the successful launch of Space Shuttle
Discovery, trailing a twisting white column of exhaust clouds behind, on mission STS-95. Lifting off
at 2:19:34 p.m. EST, Discovery carries a crew of six, including Payload Specialist John H. Glenn
Jr., senator from Ohio, who is making his second voyage into space after 36 years. Other crew
members are Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr., Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, Payload Specialist
Chiaki Mukai, (M.D., Ph.D.), with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA),
Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain, representing the
European Space Agency (ESA), and Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski. The STS-95 mission
includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble
Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as
well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process.
Discovery is expected to return to KSC at 11:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 7.
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NAME: John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (Colonel, USMC, Ret.)
NASA Astronaut
PERSONAL DATA:
Born July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. Married to the former Anna Margaret Castor of
New Concord, Ohio. They have two grown children and two grandchildren.
EDUCATION:
Glenn attended primary and secondary schools in New Concord, Ohio. He attended
Muskingum College in New Concord and received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Engineering. Muskingum College also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree in
engineering. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from nine colleges or universities.
SPECIAL HONORS:
Glenn has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on six occasions, and holds the Air
Medal with 18 Clusters for his service during World War II and Korea. Glenn also holds the
Navy Unit Commendation for service in Korea, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the
American Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the China Service Medal, the
National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service
Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation, the Navy's Astronaut Wings, the Marine Corps'
Astronaut Medal, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and the Congressional Space
Medal of Honor.
EXPERIENCE:
He entered the Naval Aviation Cadet Program in March 1942 and was graduated from this
program and commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1943. After advanced training, he joined
Marine Fighter Squadron 155 and spent a year flying F-4U fighters in the Marshall Islands.
During his World War II service, he flew 59 combat missions. After the war, he was a
member of Marine Fighter Squadron 218 on the North China patrol and served on Guam.
From June 1948 to December 1950 Glenn was an instructor in advanced flight training at
Corpus Christi, Texas. He then attended Amphibious Warfare Training at Quantico, Virginia.
In Korea he flew 63 missions with Marine Fighter Squadron 311. As an exchange pilot with
the Air Force Glenn flew 27 missions in theF-86 Sabrejet. In the last nine days of fighting in
Korea Glenn downed three MIG's in combat along the Yalu River.
After Korea, Glenn attended Test Pilot School at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River,
Maryland. After graduation, he was project officer on a number of aircraft. He was assigned
to the Fighter Design Branch of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics (now Bureau of Naval
Weapons) in Washington from November 1956 to April 1959, during which time he also
attended the University of Maryland.
In July 1957, while project officer of the F8U Crusader, he set a transcontinental speed
record from Los Angeles to New York, spanning the country in 3 hours and 23 minutes. This
was the first transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed. Glenn has nearly 9,000 hours
of flying time, with approximately 3,000 hours in jet aircraft.
NASA EXPERIENCE:
Glenn was assigned to the NASA Space Task Group at Langley Research Center, Hampton,
Virginia, in April 1959 after his selection as a Project Mercury Astronaut. The Space Task
Group was moved to Houston and became part of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in
1962. Glenn flew on Mercury-6 (February 20, 1962) and has logged 4 hours, 55 minutes, 23
seconds in space. Prior to his flight, Glenn had served as backup pilot for Astronauts Shepard
and Grissom. When astronauts were given special assignments to ensure pilot input into the
design and development of spacecraft, Glenn specialized in cockpit layout and control
functioning, including some of the early designs for the Apollo Project. Glenn resigned from
the Manned Spacecraft Center on January 16, 1964. He was promoted to the rank of
Colonel in October 1964 and retired from the Marine Corps on January 1, 1965. He was a
business executive from 1965 until his election to the United States Senate in November 1974
where he now serves. Glenn is assigned to serve as payload specialist on the crew of
STS-95. This mission will support a variety of research payloads including deployment of the
Spartan solar-observing spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test
Platform, and investigations on space flight and the aging process. STS-95 is scheduled for
launch in October 1998.
SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE:
On February 20, 1962, Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 "Friendship 7" spacecraft on the
first manned orbital mission of the United States. Launched from Kennedy Space Center,
Florida, he completed a successful three-orbit mission around the earth, reaching a maximum
altitude (apogee) of approximately 162 statute miles and an orbital velocity of approximately
17,500 miles per hour. Glenn's "Friendship 7" Mercury spacecraft landed approximately 800
miles southeast of KSC in the vicinity of Grand Turk Island. Mission duration from launch to
impact was 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds.
SEPTEMBER 1998
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November 7, 1998 KSC, 12:04pm EST. Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) Runway 33. No
Drag Chute deployed Just after landing, Astronaut John Glenn said "1 G and I feel fine". Main
Gear Touchdown 8 days 21 hours 43 minutes 57 seconds, Nose Gear Touchdown 8days 21
hours 44 minutes 6 seconds. Wheel Stop at 8days 21hours 56 minutes.
The payload bay doors were closed at 8:17 a.m. EST and the 4 minute 40 second deorbit
burn occured at 10:53 am. At 11:30a.m. EST, Discovery began its Entry interface while at
400,000ft and at a speed of Mach 25. At 11:34am EST, Discovery was at an altitude of
approximately 65 miles and was 4,500 miles from the landing strip. At 11:42, Discovery was
just under 1800 miles from KSC and dropping at 73 mph. At 11:53pm, Discovery was over
the Gulf of Mexico traveling at Mach 7, 26 miles in altitude decending at 190 mph. At noon,
the distinctive dual sonic booms were heard just as Discovery decended past the speed of
sound 650mph, 8 miles altitude. Touchdown at 12:04am EST.
While Discovery took the 1st KSC landing opportunity, there were 2 landing opportunities at
KSC and two to Edwards Air Force Base, California . Discovery has a second chance to
land at KSC at 1:45 p.m. EST or could have landed at Edwards at either 1:35 p.m EST. or
3:17 p.m. EST. The astronauts will spend the night at KSC before returning to leaving KSC
for Houston around 10am EST on Sunday to a welcome at Ellington Field.
