Manned Spaceflights - 1999

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Flight Launch Landing Name Country   Parameters
Soyuz TM-29
(7K-STM #78)
February 20, 1999
(04:18 GMT)
August 28, 1999
(00:34 GMT)
Commander: Viktor Afanasiyev
(3rd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 9)
Russia M Perigee: 188 km
Apogee: 273 km
Inclination: 51.6°
2,988 orbits
3 spacewalks
Flight Engineer: Jean-Pierre Haigneré
(2nd Flight) (EAC Group - Perseus Mission)
France M
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
70 km N of Arkalyk
(50° 32' N, 67° 9' E)
Researcher: Ivan Bella
(1st Flight) (Stefanik Mission)
(Down - Soyuz TM-28) (7 days 21 hours 56 minutes)
Slovakia M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-U #662
Docked with Mir
February 22, 1999

(05:36 GMT)
Undocked from Mir
August 27, 1999

(21:17 GMT)
Backup Crew: Salizhan Sharipov Russia M Time
188 days
20 hours
16 minutes
Backup Crew: Claudie André-Deshays France F
Backup Crew: Michal Fulier Slovakia M

STS-96 May 27, 1999
(10:49 GMT)
June 6, 1999
(06:03 GMT)
Commander: Kent Rominger
(4th Flight) (NASA Group 14)
USA M Perigee: 326 km
Apogee: 340 km
Inclination: 51.6°
154 orbits
1 spacewalk
Pilot: Rick Husband
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 15)
USA M
Mission Specialist 1: Tamara Jernigan
(5th Flight) (NASA Group 11)
USA F
Launch Pad 39B
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
47th landing at
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida (Runway 15)
Mission Specialist 2: Ellen Ochoa
(3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13)
USA F
Mission Specialist 3: Daniel Barry
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14)
USA M
Space Shuttle
Discovery
(OV-103)
(26th Mission)
Docked with ISS
May 29, 1999

(04:24 GMT)
Undocked from ISS
June 3, 1999

(22:39 GMT)
Mission Specialist 4: Julie Payette
(1st Flight) (CSA Group 2) (NASA Group 16)
Canada F Time
9 days
19 hours
13 minutes
Mission Specialist 5: Valeri Tokarev
(1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 12)
Russia M

STS-93 July 23, 1999
(04:31 GMT)
July 28, 1999
(03:21 GMT)
Commander: Eileen Collins
(3rd Flight) (NASA Group 13)
USA F Perigee: 260 km
Apogee: 280 km
Inclination: 28.4°
80 orbits
Pilot: Jeffrey Ashby
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 15)
USA M
Mission Specialist 1: Catherine Coleman
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 14)
USA F
Space Shuttle
Columbia
(OV-102)
(26th Mission)
Launch Pad 39B
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
48th landing at
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida (Runway 33)
Mission Specialist 2: Steven Hawley
(5th Flight) (NASA Group 8)
USA M Time
4 days
22 hours
49 minutes
Mission Specialist 3: Michel Ange-Charles Tognini
(2nd Flight) (EAC Group) (NASA Group 15)
France M

STS-103 December 20, 1999
(00:50 GMT)
December 28, 1999
(00:01 GMT)
Commander: Curtis Brown
(6th Flight) (NASA Group 12)
USA M Perigee: 563 km
Apogee: 609 km
Inclination: 28.45°
119 orbits
3 spacewalks
Pilot: Scott Kelly
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 16)
USA M
Mission Specialist 1: Steven Smith
(3rd Flight) (NASA Group 14)
USA M
Launch Pad 39B
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
49th landing at
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida (Runway 33)
Mission Specialist 2: Jean-François Clervoy
(3rd Flight) (EAC Group) (NASA Group 14)
France M
Mission Specialist 3: John Grunsfeld
(3rd Flight) (NASA Group 14)
USA M
Space Shuttle
Discovery
(OV-103)
(27th Mission)
Grappled Hubble
December 22, 1999

(00:34 GMT)
Released Hubble
December 25, 1999

(23:03 GMT)
Mission Specialist 4: Michael Foale
(5th Flight) (NASA Group 12)
USA M Time
7 days
23 hours
10 minutes
Mission Specialist 5: Claude Nicollier
(4th Flight) (EAC Group) (NASA Group 9)
Switzerland M

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