STS-82 was the 22nd flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery and the 82nd mission of the Space Shuttle program. It was NASA's second mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, during which Discovery's crew repaired and upgraded the telescope's scientific instruments, increasing its research capabilities. Discovery launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on February 11, 1997, returning to Earth on February 21, 1997, at Kennedy Space Center.

Crew

Discovery was crewed by a seven person team for the STS-82 mission.

Spacewalks

  • EVA 1 Lee and Smith
  • Start: February 14, 1997 – 04:34 UTC
  • End: February 14, 1997 – 11:16 UTC
  • Duration: 6 hours, 42 minutes
  • EVA 2 Harbaugh and Tanner
  • Start: February 15, 1997 – 03:25 UTC
  • End: February 15, 1997 – 10:52 UTC
  • Duration: 7 hours, 27 minutes
  • EVA 3 Lee and Smith
  • Start: February 16, 1997 – 02:53 UTC
  • End: February 16, 1997 – 10:04 UTC
  • Duration: 7 hours, 11 minutes
  • EVA 4 Harbaugh and Tanner
  • Start: February 17, 1997 – 03:45 UTC
  • End: February 17, 1997 – 10:19 UTC
  • Duration: 6 hours, 34 minutes
  • EVA 5 Lee and Smith
  • Start: February 18, 1997 – 03:15 UTC
  • End: February 18, 1997 – 08:32 UTC
  • Duration: 5 hours, 17 minutes

Crew seat assignments

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! Seat

! Launch

! Landing

|rowspan=8| 150px<br />Seats 1–4 are on the flight deck.<br />Seats 5–7 are on the mid-deck.

|-

! 1

|colspan=2| Bowersox

|-

! 2

|colspan=2| Horowitz

|-

! 3

| Tanner

| Harbaugh

|-

! 4

|colspan=2| Hawley

|-

! 5

| Harbaugh

| Tanner

|-

! 6

|colspan=2| Lee

|-

! 7

|colspan=2| Smith

|}

Mission objectives

thumb|Astronauts train in the [[Neutral Buoyancy Simulator with a mockup of the Hubble Space Telescope]]

The STS-82 mission was the second in a series of planned servicing missions to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope ("HST"), which had been placed in orbit on April 24, 1990, by Discovery during STS-31. The first servicing mission was done by Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-61. Work performed by Discovery's crew significantly upgraded the scientific capabilities of the HST and helped to keep the telescope functioning smoothly until the next scheduled servicing missions, which were STS-103 in 1999 and STS-109 in 2002.

[[File:STS-82 Discovery night landing KSC-97PC-0352.jpg | thumb|220x124px | right | alt= Space shuttle discover lands on STS-82. |

STS-82 landing]]

In addition to installing the new instruments, astronauts replaced other existing hardware with upgrades and spares. Hubble received a refurbished Fine Guidance Sensor, an optical device used to provide pointing information for the telescope and as a scientific instrument for astrometric science. The RWAs use angular momentum to move and maintain the telescope in a desired position. The wheel axes are oriented so that the telescope can provide science with only three wheels operating, if required.

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! Flight Day

! Song

! Artist/Composer

|-

| Day 2

| "Magic Carpet Ride"

| Steppenwolf

|-

| Day 3

| "These Are Days"

| 10,000 Maniacs

|-

| Day 4

| "Two Princes"

| Spin Doctors

|-

| Day 5

| "Higher Love"

| Steve Winwood

|-

| Day 6

| "The Packerena"

| WMYX-FM

|-

| Day 7

| "Shiny Happy People"

| R.E.M.

|-

| Day 8

| "Dreams"

| The Cranberries

|-

| Day 9

| "That Thing You Do"

| The Wonders

|-

| Day 10

| "Five Hundred Miles Away From Home"

| Reba McEntire

|-

| Day 11

| "Born to Be Wild"

| Steppenwolf

|}

Summary of instruments exchange

  • Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) replaces Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS)
  • Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) replaced Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS)

See also

  • List of human spaceflights
  • List of Space Shuttle missions
  • Outline of space science

References

  • ESA-Hubble mission summary
  • STS-82 Video Highlights