Abstract
When the crew of STS-63 was announced by NASA in September 1993, they could hardly have anticipated that theirs would be a voyage of destiny. Scheduled for launch in May of the following year, the five astronauts - commander Jim Wetherbee, pilot Eileen Collins and mission specialists Bernard Harris, Mike Foale, Janice Voss and Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Titov - were tasked with supporting a range of scientific and technological experiments aboard the Spacehab-3 research module and deploying and retrieving the SPARTAN-20l free-flying solar physics satellite. Tbe eight-day mission would showcase many of the Shuttle’s capabilities, it was true, and serve as a pathfinder for the future space station, but it was hardly a voyage of destiny.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Evans, B. (2015). A new partnership. In: The Twenty-first Century in Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1307-7_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1307-7_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4939-1306-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-4939-1307-7
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)