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ArchivesText SizeSTS-89 Mission: Eighth Shuttle-Mir Docking
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Launch Pad: 39A 
Launched: January 22, 1998, 9:48:15 p.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Landing: January 31, 1998, 5:35:09 p.m. EST
Runway: 15
Rollout Distance: 9,790 feet
Rollout Time: 70 seconds
Revolution: 139
Mission Duration: 8 days, 19 hours, 46 minutes, 54 seconds


Crew Members

                    

Image above: STS-89 Crew photo with Commander Terrence W. Wilcutt, Pilot Joe F. 
Edwards, Jr., Payload Commander Bonnie J. Dunbar, Mission Specialists Michael P. 
Anderson, James F. Reilly, Salizhan Shakirovich Sharipov and Andrew S. W. 
Thomas. Image Credit: NASA 

Launch Highlights

 Endeavour returned to space after completing its first Orbiter Maintenance Down 
Period, becoming first orbiter other than Atlantis to dock with Mir. On May 22, 
1997, mission managers announced Endeavour would fly STS-89 instead of 
Discovery. Launch originally targeted for Jan. 15, 1998, changed first to no 
earlier than Jan. 20 and then Jan. 22, per request from the Russian space 
program to allow completion of activities on Mir. First launch overseen by one 
of two new rotational launch directors, Dave King, following retirement of 
veteran Launch Director Jim Harrington.

Mission Highlights

Docking of Endeavour to Mir occurred at 3:14 p.m., Jan. 24, at an altitude of 
214 nautical miles. Hatches opened at 5:25 p.m. the same day. Transfer of Andy 
Thomas to Mir and return of David Wolf to the U.S. orbiter occurred at 6:35 
p.m., Jan. 25. Initially, Thomas thought his Sokol pressure suit did not fit, 
and the crew exchange was allowed to proceed only after Wolf's suit was adjusted 
to fit Thomas. Once on Mir, Thomas was able to make adequate adjustments to his 
own suit (which would be worn should the crew need to return to Earth in the 
Soyuz capsule) and this remained on Mir with him. Wolf spent a total of 119 days 
aboard Mir, and after landing his total on-orbit time was 128 days.

Hatches between the spacecraft closed at 5:34 p.m., Jan. 28, and two spacecraft 
undocked at 11:57 a.m., Jan. 29. More than 8,000 pounds (3,629 kilograms) of 
scientific equipment, logistical hardware and water were taken from Endeavour to 
Mir.

On Jan. 31, a new crew docked with Mir to begin a three-week handover. Thomas 
and his Mir 24 crewmates, Commander Anatoly Solvyev and Flight Engineer Pavel 
Vinogradov, greeted Mir 25 Commander Talgat Musabayev, Flight Engineer Nikolai 
Budarin and French researcher Leopold Eyharts following a soft docking on Jan. 
31, just hours before the STS-89 crew touched down in Florida. Eyharts was to 
return to Earth Feb. 19 with the two Mir 24 cosmonauts, leaving Thomas, 
Musabayev and Budarin on Mir. Thomas, the last U.S. astronaut assigned to 
complete a lengthy stay on Mir, will return to Earth after a four-month stay as 
Phase I activities draw to a close.

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