STS-26 -- QUICK LOOK


Crew:  Frederick H. (Rick) Hauck, commander
       Richard O. Covey, pilot
       John M. (Mike) Lounge, mission specialist (MS-1)
       David C. Hilmers, mission specialist (MS-2)
       George D. (Pinky) Nelson, mission specialist (MS-3)

Orbiter:  Discovery (OV-103)

Launch Site:  Pad 39-B, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

Launch Date/Time:  Late September, 1988, (TBD) a.m. EDT

Launch Window:  3 hours

Orbital Inclination:  28.45 degrees

Altitude:  160 nautical miles

Mission Duration:  4 days, 1 hour

Landing Date/Time:  Sept. (TBD), 1988, (TBD) a.m. EDT

Primary Landing Site:  Edwards AFB, Calif.
  Weather Alternate:  White Sands Space Harbor, N.M.
  Trans-Atlantic Abort:  Ben Guerir, Morocco
  Abort-Once-Around:  Edwards AFB

Primary Payload:  Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-C)

Secondary Payloads:
  Automatic Directional Solidification Furnace (ADSF)
  Physical Vapor Transport of Organic Solids (PVTOS)
  Infrared Communications Flight Experiment (IRCFE)
  Protein Crystal Growth Experiment (PCG)
  Isoelectric Focusing Experiment (IEF)
  Phase Partitioning Experiment (PPE)
  Aggregation of Red Blood Cells (ARC)
  Mesoscale Lightning Experiment (MLE)
  Earth-Limb Radiance Experiment (ELRAD)
  2 Shuttle Student Involvement Program (SSIP) Experiments