Poyekhali! (Yuri Gagarin)

To Russian variant To Main Menu

Mission "STS-99"


BRIEFLY ABOUT MISSION
Registration number 2000-010A / 26088
Time and date of launch (UTC) 17h.43m.40s.   February 11, 2000
Launch site Cape Canaveral, LC 39-A
Launch vehicle Shuttle
Payload mass (kg)
Orbital parameters:
   - inclination (degrees) 57.0
   - period (minutes) 89.2
   - perigee (km) 228
   - apogee (km) 246
Time and date of landing (wheel stop, UTC) 23h.23m.21s.   February 22, 2000
   - rollout time (sec.) 51
Place of landing Runway 33, Kennedy Space Center, FL
Duration 11d.05h.39m.41s.
Distance (km) 8.6 million
Number of revolutions around Earth 181
Summary 14th flight of Shuttle "Endeavour". The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Its objective is to obtain the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of the Earth.



CREW
Ord.
num.
Status Main Backup Reserved
1 Cdr Kregel, Kevin Richard

2 Plt Gorie, Dominic Lee Pudwill

3 MS Thiele, Gerhard Paul Julius

4 MS/FE (w) Kavandi, Janet Lynn

5 MS (w) Voss, Janice Elaine

6 MS Mohri, Mamoru Mark

Call sign Endeavour


TIMELINE
Date Time (UTC) Spaceship's revo-
lution number
Explanation
Feb 11, 2000 17:43:40 1 Lift-off Shuttle, mission "STS-99"   (crew: Kregel,   Gorie,   Thiele,   Kavandi,   Voss,   Mohri ).
Feb 22, 2000 22:24 182 Deorbit burn of Shuttle, mission "STS-99"   (crew: Kregel,   Gorie,   Thiele,   Kavandi,   Voss,   Mohri ).
Feb 22, 2000 23:23:21 182 Landing of Shuttle, mission "STS-99"   (crew: Kregel,   Gorie,   Thiele,   Kavandi,   Voss,   Mohri ).

Sources:
  Mission Control Center (TsUP) from 2007
  CBS News
  Spaceflight now
  Alexander Zheleznyakov
  journal "Novosti Kosmonavtiki" ("News of Cosmonautics") from 1993 till our time
  journal "Kosmonavtika, astronomiya" ("Cosmonautics, astronomy") 1983-1991 years
  book "Evolution of vehicle-creating and cosmonautics in the USSR" by Valentin P. Glushko, Moscow, 1987
  Jonathan's Space Report
  and many other people and editions
  


To Russian variant To Main Menu

Copyright 1998-2012 © Alexander Anikeev, anikeev(at)kursknet.ru
Last update: February 17, 2012
You may freely use data from this website for non-commercial and educational purposes
if you refer to this site and provide a workable link to it.

The author cannot ensure the accuracy of the data on this website
and disclaims any responsibility for the consequences stemming from its use.

HTML-code is checked by validator   http://validator.w3.org/