STS-80 crew members pose for a photograph at Launch Pad 39B, where the Space Shuttle Columbia is poised for a targeted Nov. 8 liftoff. From left, are Pilot Kent V. Rominger, Mission Specialist Tamara E. Jernigan, Commander Kenneth D. Cockrell, and Mission Specialists Thomas D. Jones and Story Musgrave. The STS- 80 mission, the seventh and final Shuttle flight of 1996, will feature two spacewalks and the deployment, operation and retrieval of two scientific satellites, the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 (ORFEUS-SPAS-2) and the Wake Shield Facility-3 (WSF- 3).
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STS-80 crew members pose for a photograph at Launch Pad 39B, where the Space Shuttle Columbia is poised for a targeted Nov. 8 liftoff. From left, are Pilot Kent V. Rominger, Mission Specialist Tamara E. Jernigan, Commander Kenneth D. Cockrell, and Mission Specialists Thomas D. Jones and Story Musgrave. The STS- 80 mission, the seventh and final Shuttle flight of 1996, will feature two spacewalks and the deployment, operation and retrieval of two scientific satellites, the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 (ORFEUS-SPAS-2) and the Wake Shield Facility-3 (WSF- 3).