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October 29 (CST) Flight Day 1
Lift Off!
STS-95 crew leaving for
launch pad 39B
People observing the STS-95
Launch at Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle Discovery
leaving for Space
Space shuttle "Discovery" was launched at 2:19 p.m., Nov. 29 (EST) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
President Clinton saw this historical launch form Kennedy Space Center.

Discovery arrived on orbit about nine minutes after the launch. SPACEHAB was activated about 4:00 p.m. (CST), and STS-95 crew members went inside the SPACEHAB and conducted preparation of experiments.

The drag chute* door fell off during the launch, and it hit part of the main engine. NASA judges that it should have no effects for the flight.
*DRAG CHUTE: a parachute used during landing period for deceleration of Discovery.

Discovery's astronauts will go to sleep around 11:25 p.m. (CST) tonight, and wake up around 7:45 a.m..

Today's Astronaut Mukai
"NIH-C* was activated." Was Mukai's first call back from space, 2 hours 42 minutes after the launch.
*NIH-C: National Institutes of Health Cell Culture Module

Astronaut Glenn told his second space flight impression from space as "It's beautiful up here. Zero-G and I feel fine."

Japanese Experiments
Astronaut Mukai conducted initial check-out of Vestibular Function Experiment Unit and Neural Data Acquisition System (VFEU).

She pulled out the fish package and accelerated manually. These accelerations keep the oyster toadfish active and get the neural signal.

Data Recorder for recording the neural activity potential data was replaced.

Samples for the experiment of "BRIC-RT: Response of roots of wild type and auxin/gravi-sensitivity mutants of higher plants to electrical field and gravity" were taken out from the freezer for set-up.

For the experiment of "BRIC-AUX: Polar transport mechanism of Phytohormones in higher plants under microgravity", water is fed to the samples.

For the experiment of "Crystal growth of organic ferromagnet", the valves of the experimental unit were opened, and the experiment was initiated.


Last Updated : May 26, 2003

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