Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on STS-89, the eighth Shuttle-Mir docking mission, delivering over 8,000 pounds of supplies and swapping NASA astronaut David Wolf for Andrew Thomas aboard the Russian station, the final crew exchange of the Phase I program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19.7 T
- Flight
- 89th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 23 January 1998, 02:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1998-003
- Launches in 1998
- 4th of 82
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