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Mission Highlights

STS-77 Mission Schedule Highlights on NASA TV
(Based on Eastern Daylight Time)

NASA TV:

A feed of ground and mission activities on NASA Select Television was available to media covering from Johnson. NASA Select Television could be accessed through GTE Spacenet 2, transponder 5. The frequency was 3880 MHZ with an orbital position of 69 degrees West Longitude, with audio at 6.8 MHZ. This was full transponder service and was operational 24 hours a day.

Launch:

6:30 am

Mission STS-77 launch

Flight Day 1:

9:00 am

Thomas and Garneau began to activate Spacehab system (FD).

Flight Day 2:

7:29 am

Runco released the Spartan Satellite for the IAE operations and 24 hours of free flight (Rendezvous)

9:38 am

The Inflatable Antenna Experiment began to inflate with nitrogen gas atop the Spartan satellite

12:34 pm

The astronauts downlink a videotape replay of the Spartan deployment

14:00 pm

Casper conducted a Crew Choice TV downlink featuring scenes of the Spartan/IAE activity

Flight Day 3:

10:55 am

Garneau used the Canadarm to grapple the Spartan satellite form its free-flying orbit

11:00 am

Garneau began to berth Spartan back onto its cradle in the cargo bay

13:18 pm

Garneau conducted a videotape playback of the Spartan retrieval

Flight Day 4:

5:18 am

Runco sent commands to deploy the PAMS-STU satellite from its canister in the cargo bay

12:00 pm

Casper and Brown performed a 1.5 foot per second separation burn to complete the first stationkeeping data take effort with the PAMS-STU (Rendezvous)

12:40 pm

PAO opportunity with Thomas, Bursch and Garneau (downlink)

Flight Day 5:

9:25 am

PAO opportunity with Bursch, Runco and Garneau (downlink)

Flight Day 6:

9:20 am

Garneau changed out ampoules in the Float Zone furnace

10:00 am

PAO opportunity with all crew members

Flight Day 7:

13:44 pm

Casper and Brown conducted another rendezvous manoeuvre to close in on the PAMS-STU (Rendezvous)

Flight Day 8:

12:00 am

Casper and Brown powered up backup equipment for the final PAMS-STU (Rendezvous)

Flight Day 9:

3:00 am

Garneau shot scenes for an educational film

7:40 am

Crew news conference with all crew members (downlink)

10:25 am

Garneau changed out ampoules in the Float Zone furnace.

Landing:

7:07 am

Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center

Information:

CSA: (514) 926-4350

NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C.: (202) 358-418

Kennedy Space Center: (407) 867-2314

Johnson Space Center: (713) 483-2477