Fifteen years ago today — March 2, 1995 — Space Shuttle Endeavour launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-67.
(Astro-2 telescope in the cargo bay during the STS-67 mission. Note the constellation Orion in the right side of the picture. NASA image from the University of Virginia web site.)
Astronauts Stephen S. Oswald, William G. Gregory, Tamara E. Jernigan, John M. Grunsfeld, Wendy B. Lawrence, Ronald A. Parise, and Samuel T. Durrance spent 16 days in orbit making observations with the Ultraviolet Astronomy 2 (Astro-2) Telescope, including the “first ultraviolet images of the entire Moon.”
(Astro-2 UV image of the moon, compared to a visible light image, from mission STS-67. NASA image from the University of Virginia web site.)
STS-67 was the longest shuttle mission to date, and also the
first advertised shuttle mission connected to the Internet. Users of more than 200,000 computers from 59 countries logged on to Astro-2 home page at Marshall Space Flight Center; more than 2.4 million requests were recorded during mission, many answered by crew on-orbit.
And now you can read about it … on the Internet.
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