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STS-56

1993 American crewed spaceflight

Field	Value
name	STS-56
names_list	Space Transportation System-56
image	STS056-91-054 - Payload bay view with ATLAS pallet (Retouched).jpg
image_caption	Components of the ATLAS-2 laboratory in the payload bay of Discovery
mission_type	Scientific research
operator	NASA
mission_duration
distance_travelled	6202407 km
orbits_completed	148
spacecraft
landing_mass	93683 kg
payload_mass	7026 kg
crew_size	5
crew_members
launch_date	UTC (1:29amEDT)
launch_site	Kennedy, LC-39B
launch_contractor	Rockwell International
landing_date	UTC (7:37:19amEDT)
landing_site	Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
orbit_reference	Geocentric orbit
orbit_regime	Low Earth orbit
orbit_periapsis	291 km
orbit_apoapsis	299 km
orbit_inclination	57.00°
orbit_period	90.40 minutes
instruments
insignia	Sts-56-patch.png
insignia_caption	STS-56 mission patch
crew_photo	Sts-56_crew.jpg
crew_photo_caption	Standing: Cockrell, Foale, Ochoa
Seated: Oswald, Cameron
programme	Space Shuttle program
previous_mission	STS-54 (53)
next_mission	STS-55 (55)

Seated: Oswald, Cameron

STS-56 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform special experiments. It was Discovery's 16th flight. The mission was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on April 8, 1993.

Crew

Flight Engineer

Crew seat assignments

Seat	Launch	Landing	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
[[File:Space Shuttle seating plan.svg	150px]]
Seats 1–4 are on the flight deck.
Seats 5–7 are on the mid-deck.
Cameron
Oswald
Foale	Ochoa
Cockrell
Ochoa	Foale
Unused
Unused

Mission highlights

The primary payload of the flight was the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-2 (ATLAS-2), designed to collect data on the relationship between the Sun's energy output and Earth's middle atmosphere and how these factors affect the ozone layer. It included six instruments mounted on a Spacelab pallet in the cargo bay, with the seventh mounted on the wall of the bay in two Get Away Special (GAS) canisters. Atmospheric instruments included the Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy (ATMOS) experiment, the Millimeter Wave Atmospheric Sounder (MAS), and the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SSBUV/A) spectrometer (on the cargo bay wall). Solar science instruments were the solar spectrometry instrument SOLSPEC, the Solar Ultraviolet Irradiance Monitor (SUSIM), and the Active Cavity Radiometer (ACR) and Solar Constant (SOLCON) experiments.

ATLAS-2 is one element of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth program. All seven ATLAS-2 instruments first flew on ATLAS-1 during STS-45, and flew a third time in late 1994 on STS-66.

On April 11, 1993, the crew used the remote manipulator arm (Canadarm) to deploy the Shuttle Point Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy-201 (SPARTAN-201), a free-flying science instrument platform designed to study velocity and acceleration of the solar wind and observe the Sun's corona. Collected data was stored on tape for playback after return to Earth. SPARTAN-201 was retrieved on April 13, 1993.

The crew also made numerous radio contacts to schools around the world using the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX II), including brief radio contact with the Russian Mir space station, the first such contact between Space Shuttle and Mir using amateur radio equipment.

Other cargo bay payloads were the Solar Ultraviolet Experiment (SUVE), sponsored by Colorado Space Grant Consortium and located in a GetAway Special canister on the cargo bay wall.

The middeck payloads were the Commercial Materials Dispersion Apparatus Instrumentation Technology Associates Experiment (CMIX), the Physiological and Anatomical Rodent Experiment (PARE), Space Tissue Loss (STL-1) experiment, the Cosmic Ray Effects and Activation Monitor (CREAM) experiment. the Hand-held, Earth-oriented, Real-time, Cooperative, User-friendly, Location-targeting and Environmental System (HERCULES), Radiation Monitoring Equipment (RME III), and an Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS) calibration test.

Gallery

Image:STS-56 Launch - GPN-2000-000748.jpg|Launch of STS-56 Image:STS056-90-034 - SPARTAN-201 free-flying (Retouched).jpg|SPARTAN-201 File:STS056-91-054 - Payload bay view with ATLAS pallet (Retouched).jpg|Payload bay view with ATLAS pallet

References

"STS-56". Spacefacts.
(1993-04-05). "Discovery to lift off tomorrow". Observer–Reporter.
Leary, Warren E.. (1993-04-07). "FLAW IN SHUTTLE STOPS LAUNCHING". The New York Times.
(1993-04-08). "NASA ready for launch... again". Observer–Reporter.
Fricke, Robert W.. (1993-07-01). "STS-56 Space Shuttle mission report". NASA.
"Background". Institut Pierre Simon Laplace.
"STS-56". NASA.
(September 1, 2011). "Space Shuttle Missions Summary". NASA.

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