STS-86 Mission Specialist Chretien feels heat from Atlantis

[KSC-97PC-1503]

  • Photo Number: KSC-97PC-1503

  • Release Date: 06-Oct-1997

  • Keywords: SHUTTLE,sts-86
    • Description: STS-86 Mission Specialist Jean-Loup J.M. Chretien of the French Space Agency, CNES, can still feel heat from the nose of the orbiter Atlantis more than an hour after landing on KSCs Runway 15 of the Shuttle Landing Facility. The nearly 11-day mission ended with main gear touchdown at 5:55:09 p.m. EDT, Oct. 6, 1997. STS-86 was the seventh docking of the Space Shuttle with the Russian Space Station Mir.

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