Stock Photo - 11/19/1997 ___ Like a rising sun lighting up the afternoon sky, the Space Shuttle Columbia soars from Launch Pad 39B at 2:46:00 p.m. EST, November 19, on the fourth flight of the United States Microgravity Payload and Spartan_201 satellite. The crew members include Mission Commander Kevin Kregel., Pilot Steven Lindsey, Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla, Ph.D., Winston Scott, and Takao Doi, Ph.D., of the National Space Development Agency of Japan, and Payload Specialist Leonid Kadenyuk of the National Space Agency of Ukraine. During the 16_day STS_87 mission, the crew will oversee experiments in microgravity, deploy and retrieve a solar satellite, and test a new experimental camera, the AERCam Sprint. Dr. Doi and Scott also will perform a spacewalk to practice International Space Station maneuvers

Stock Photo: 11/19/1997 --- Like a rising sun lighting up the afternoon sky, the Space Shuttle Columbia soars from Launch Pad 39B at 2:46:00 p.m.

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