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Onderwerp: CREW MEMBERS NAMED FOR EARTH-MAPPING MISSION
Doug Peterson
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 281/483-5111) October 26, 1998
Jennifer McCarter
Headquarters, Washington, DC
(Phone: 202/358-1639)
RELEASE: 98-197
CREW MEMBERS NAMED FOR EARTH-MAPPING MISSION
An international cadre of astronauts will support an
ambitious mission to map the EarthÕs surface when Endeavour
launches on the STS-99 mission in September 1999.
Commander Kevin Kregel; Pilot Dom Gorie; and Mission
Specialists Janet Kavandi, Ph.D.; Janice Voss, Ph.D.; Mamoru
Mohri, Ph.D. (NASDA); and Gerhard P. J. Thiele (ESA) have been
named to the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). SRTM
evolved from the two 1994 Space Radar Laboratory missions, which
collected data on geology, geography and oceanography.
During the mission, the crew will use specialized radar
equipment and other electronics to map 80 percent of the EarthÕs
land mass, extending from the southern tip of Greenland to the
northern edge of the Antarctic Circle. Data targets will be
spaced approximately every 90 feet and the resulting image should
be accurate to within 30 feet of the height of the terrain.
Kregel was selected as an astronaut in 1992. He has logged
more than 41 days in space during three missions: as pilot of STS-
70 in 1995 and STS-78 in 1996, and as commander of STS-87 last
year.
After being selected as an astronaut in 1994, Gorie served as
pilot earlier this year on STS-91, the ninth and final Shuttle-Mir
mission of the U.S.-Russian Phase One Program.
Kavandi was selected as an astronaut in 1994 and flew on
board Discovery earlier this year with Gorie on STS-91.
Voss will be making her fifth space flight on STS-99. She
has flown previously on STS-57 in 1993, STS-63 in 1995; and STS-83
and STS-94 in 1997.
Mohri, of the Japanese Space Agency, is a member of the 1996
astronaut class. STS-99 will be his second space flight; he flew
as a Payload Specialist on STS-47, the Spacelab-J mission, in
1992.
Thiele, of the European Space Agency, is a member of the 1996
astronaut class. This will be his first flight.
For additional information on the STS-99 crew, or any
astronaut, see the NASA Internet biography home page at URL:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/
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