Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-87, running United States Microgravity Payload-4 experiments and deploying the SPARTAN-201 solar-observation satellite. Two spacewalks were performed, with Takao Doi becoming the first Japanese astronaut to walk in space.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 14.7 T
- Flight
- 88th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 19 November 1997, 19:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1997-073
- Launches in 1997
- 76th of 89
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