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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