
Shortly after their arrival at the Shuttle Landing Facility, STS-88 crew members talk to the media. From left, they are Mission Specialists James H. Newman and Jerry L. Ross, Commander Robert D. Cabana (at microphone), Mission Specialists Nancy J. Currie and Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, and Pilot Frederick W. "Rick" Sturckow. Krikalev is a Russian cosmonaut who has flown three times in space, once on the Space Shuttle and twice aboard the Russian Space Station Mir. The STS-88 mission is the fourth spaceflight for Cabana, sixth for Ross, third for Currie, third for Newman and first for Sturckow. The scheduled time of launch is 3:56 a.m. EST on Dec. 3 from Launch Pad 39A. The mission is the first U.S. launch for the International Space Station. Endeavour carries the Unity connecting module which the crew will be mating with the Russian-built Zarya control module already in orbit. In addition to Unity, Endeavour will carry two small replacement electronics boxes for possible repairs to Zarya batteries. The mission is scheduled to last nearly 12 days
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November 29, 1998
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