STS-85 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform multiple space science packages. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 7, 1997.
Jeffrey S. Ashby was originally assigned to this mission which was to be his first, but resigned from this mission to take care of his wife, who was dying from cancer. He was replaced by Kent Rominger and allowed to fly STS-93 instead.
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STS-85 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform multiple space science packages. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 7, 1997.
Jeffrey S. Ashby was originally assigned to this mission which was to be his first, but resigned from this mission to take care of his wife, who was dying from cancer. He was replaced by Kent Rominger and allowed to fly STS-93 instead.
The deployment and retrieval of a satellite designed to study Earth's middle atmosphere along with a test of potential International Space Station hardware highlighted NASA's sixth Shuttle mission of 1997. The prime payload for the flight, the Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 (CRISTA-SPAS-2) made its second flight on the Space Shuttle (previous flight STS-66 in 1994) and was the fourth mission in a cooperative venture between the German Space Agency (DARA) and NASA.
During the flight, Davis used Discovery's robot arm to deploy the...
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