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| Flight | Launch | Landing | Name | Country | Parameters | |
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| STS-89 | January 23, 1998 (02:48 GMT) |
January 31, 1998 (22:36 GMT) |
Commander: Terrence Wilcutt (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | Perigee: 379 km Apogee: 385 km Inclination: 51.6° 139 orbits |
| Pilot: Joseph Edwards (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: James Reilly (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Michael Anderson (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
42nd landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 3: Bonnie Dunbar (5th Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | F | ||
| Mission Specialist 4: Salizhan Sharipov (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 11) |
Russia | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) (12th Mission) |
Docked with Mir January 24, 1998 (20:14 GMT) |
Undocked from Mir January 29, 1998 (16:57 GMT) |
Researcher: Andrew Thomas (2nd Flight) (NASA Group - NASA 7 Mission) (Down - STS-91) (140 days 15 hours 12 minutes) |
USA | M | Time 8 days 19 hours 47 minutes |
| Backup NASA 7 Researcher: James Voss | USA | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TM-27 (7K-STM #76) |
January 29, 1998 (16:33 GMT) |
August 25, 1998 (05:24 GMT) |
Commander: Talgat Musabayev (2nd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 11) |
Kazakhstan | M | Perigee: 382 km Apogee: 390 km Inclination: 51.6° 3,284 orbits 6 spacewalks |
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
40 km from Dzhezkazgan (47° 57' 7" N, 69° 37' 50" E) |
Flight Engineer: Nikolai Budarin (2nd Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 9) |
Russia | M | ||
| Docked with Mir January 31, 1998 (17:54 GMT) |
Undocked from Mir August 25, 1998 (02:05 GMT) |
Researcher: Léopold Eyharts (1st Flight) (CNES Group 3 - Pégase Mission) (Down - Soyuz TM-26) (20 days 16 hours 37 minutes) |
France | M | ||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Port Relocation February 20, 1998 (08:48 GMT - 09:32 GMT) |
Backup Crew: Viktor Afanasiyev | Russia | M | Time 207 days 12 hours 51 minutes |
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| Backup Crew: Sergei Treshchyov | Russia | M | ||||
| Backup Crew: Jean-Pierre Haigneré | France | M | ||||
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| STS-90 | April 17, 1998 (18:19 GMT) |
May 3, 1998 (16:09 GMT) |
Commander: Richard Searfoss (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | Perigee: 257 km Apogee: 286 km Inclination: 39° 256 orbits |
| Pilot: Scott Altman (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Richard Linnehan (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Kathryn "Kay" Hire (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Dafydd Williams (1st Flight) (CSA Group 2) (NASA Group 15) |
Canada | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) (25th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
43rd landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Payload Specialist 1: Jay Buckey (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for Neurolab) |
USA | M | Time 15 days 21 hours 49 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: James Pawelczyk (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for Neurolab) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Chiaki Mukai | Japan | F | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Alexander Dunlap | USA | M | ||||
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| STS-91 | June 2, 1998 (22:06 GMT) |
June 12, 1998 (18:01 GMT) |
Commander: Charles Precourt (4th Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | Perigee: 326 km Apogee: 330 km Inclination: 51.6° 155 orbits |
| Pilot: Dominic Gorie (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
44th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 1: Franklin Chang-Diaz (6th Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||
| Mission Specialist 2: Wendy Lawrence (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (24th Mission) |
Docked with Mir June 4, 1998 (16:58 GMT) |
Undocked from Mir June 8, 1998 (16:01 GMT) |
Mission Specialist 3: Janet Kavandi (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | F | Time 9 days 19 hours 54 minutes |
| Mission Specialist 4: Valeri Ryumin (4th Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 3) |
Russia | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TM-28 (7K-STM #77) |
August 13, 1998 (09:43 GMT) |
February 28, 1999 (02:14 GMT) |
Commander: Gennadi Padalka (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 10) |
Russia | M | Perigee: 190 km Apogee: 237.7 km Inclination: 51.6° 3,144 orbits 2 spacewalks |
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
58 km N of Arkalyk (50° 42' N, 67° 12' E) |
Flight Engineer: Sergei Avdeyev (3rd Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 8) (Down - Soyuz TM-29) (379 days 14 hours 52 minutes) |
Russia | M | ||
| Docked with Mir August 15, 1998 (10:56 GMT) |
Undocked from Mir February 27, 1999 (22:55 GMT) |
Research Engineer: Yuri Baturin (1st Flight) (TsPK / VVS Detachment) (Down - Soyuz TM-27) (11 days 19 hours 39 minutes) |
Russia | M | ||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Port Relocation 1 August 27, 1998 (05:47 GMT - 06:07 GMT) |
Port Relocation 2 February 8, 1999 (11:20 GMT - 11:39 GMT) |
Backup Crew: Sergei Zalyotin | Russia | M | Time 198 days 16 hours 31 minutes |
| Backup Crew: Aleksandr Kaleri | Russia | M | ||||
| Backup Crew: Oleg Kotov | Russia | M | ||||
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| STS-95 | October 29, 1998 (19:19 GMT) |
November 7, 1998 (17:04 GMT) |
Commander: Curtis Brown (5th Flight) (NASA Group 12) |
USA | M | Perigee: 551 km Apogee: 561 km Inclination: 28.45° 135 orbits |
| Pilot: Steven Lindsey (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Stephen Robinson (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Scott Parazynski (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Pedro Duque (1st Flight) (ESA Group 2) (NASA Group 16) |
Spain | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (25th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
45th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Payload Specialist 1: Chiaki Mukai (2nd Flight) (NASDA Group 1) |
Japan | F | Time 8 days 21 hours 44 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Senator John Glenn (2nd Flight) (United States Senator) |
USA | M | ||||
| Payload Specialist 1: Koichi Wakata | Japan | M | ||||
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| Zarya (77KM #175-01) |
November 20, 1998 (06:40 GMT) |
Currently in orbit | Zarya (International Space Station module) |
Russia | Perigee: 184.3 km Apogee: 362.2 km Inclination: 51.6° |
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| Launch Vehicle Proton-K #395-01 |
Site-81L (Launch Pad 23) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
Currently in orbit | ||||
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| STS-88 | December 4, 1998 (08:35 GMT) |
December 16, 1998 (03:54 GMT) |
Commander: Robert Cabana (4th Flight) (NASA Group 11) |
USA | M | Perigee: 388 km Apogee: 401 km Inclination: 51.6° 186 orbits 3 spacewalks |
| Pilot: Frederick "Rick" Sturckow (1st Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
46th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 1: Jerry Ross (6th Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||
| Mission Specialist 2: Nancy Currie (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) (13th Mission) |
Grappled Zarya December 6, 1998 (23:47 GMT) |
Undocked from ISS December 13, 1998 (20:25 GMT) |
Mission Specialist 3: James Newman (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13) |
USA | M | Time 11 days 19 hours 18 minutes |
| Mission Specialist 4: Sergei Krikalyov (4th Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 7) |
Russia | M | ||||
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