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Sixty-five groups from 20 countries are making validation measurements with ground-based and aircraft instruments to verify LITE data.
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STS-85 carried a complement of payloads in the cargo bay that focused on Mission to Planet Earth objectives as well as preparations for International Space Station assembly.
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stayed in space for 10 days 19 hours and 20 minutes
landed october 6 1997
lanch pad 39a -
they stayed in space for 15 days 16 hours and 34 seconds
landed- december 5 1997
traveled 6.5 million miles -
this was a tradgic mission on feb.1 after a 16 day mission the crew was lost on the re-entery over texas
a 7 month search to find debree
they found 85,00 pieces of the ship about 38% was recovered later.
