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| Keywords: sts-93 sts93 july23 jlu27 1999 eileen collins eileencollins jeffreyashby stevenhawley catherinecoleman micheltognini missionpatch Launched: July 23, 1999, 12:31:00 a.m. EDT Landing: July 27, 1999, 11:20:37 p.m. EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Space Shuttle: Columbia Crew: Commander Eileen M. Collins, Pilot Jeffrey S. Ashby, Mission Specialists Steven A. Hawley, Catherine G. Coleman and Michel Tognini. STS-93 was the first mission in space shuttle history to be commanded by a woman, Eileen Collins. The purpose of the mission was to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory. During the rest of the mission secondary payloads and experiments were activated. The Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System (SWUIS) was used aboard Columbia to capture ultraviolet imagery of Earth, the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archiv... Launched: July 23, 1999, 12:31:00 a.m. EDT Landing: July 27, 1999, 11:20:37 p.m. EDT, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Space Shuttle: Columbia Crew: Commander Eileen M. Collins, Pilot Jeffrey S. Ashby, Mission Specialists Steven A. Hawley, Catherine G. Coleman and Michel Tognini. STS-93 was the first mission in space shuttle history to be commanded by a woman, Eileen Collins. The purpose of the mission was to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory. During the rest of the mission secondary payloads and experiments were activated. The Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System (SWUIS) was used aboard Columbia to capture ultraviolet imagery of Earth, the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archiv... | ||||
