STS-88 Endeavour

Mission data
Notes
Photo gallery
Photo links
Links
Crew portraits

Details of Sergei’s fourth flight and second Space Shuttle flight, where he visited the International Space Station for the first time.

Mission data

STS-88 crew
Commander	Robert Donald Cabana
Pilot	Frederick Wilford Sturckow
Mission Specialist-1	Jerry Lynn Ross
Mission Specialist-2	Nancy Jane Sherlock Currie
Mission Specialist-3	James Hansen Newman
Mission Specialist-4	Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalyov (Russian Space Agency)

Flight details
Mission	First International Space Station Flight
Orbiter	Endeavour, OV-105
Mission number	STS-88 (93rd Shuttle Mission)
Launched	4 December 1998 at 08:35:34,096 UTC
Launch site	Pad 39-A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Orbit Altitude	173 nautical miles/320.396 kilometers
Orbit Inclination	51.6°
Distance traveled	4.7 million miles/7 563 916.8 kilometers.
Landed	15 December 1988 at 03:53:33 UTC
Landing site	KSC Runway 15
Rollout Distance	8343 feet/2542.9464 meters
Rollout Time	44 seconds
Revolution	185
Duration	11d 19h 17m 59s

Notes

The 93rd Space Shuttle mission and 13th flight of Endeavour. STS-88 marked an important milestone for NASA and the Space Shuttle program. This was the first Space Shuttle mission dedicated to assembly of the International Space Station (ISS). The Zarya module, launched in 1998, was linked to the Unity module carried in the Orbiter’s cargo bay. Nancy Currie linked the Russian and U.S. elements using the Orbiter’s robot arm. Sergei and Robert Cabana entered the ISS first (Sergei was the first Russian to enter the ISS).

Sergei’s crew assignments – backup

DTO/DSO/RMEs: DTO 691 (low-iodine residual system); DTO 700-14 (single-string Global Positioning System), DTO 700-15 (Space-Integrated Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System [SIGI])

Photo gallery

These two photos were scanned in from Spaceflight magazine, March 1999, so are low-resolution and not good quality.

“Crew member Sergei Krikalyov signs an autograph for a reporter following the press conference held at the time of the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) on 5 November 1998.”

“The crew of STS-88 prepare to leave Cape Canaveral Air Station on 17 December after spending an extra day in Florida following the late evening landing on 15 December. Here they pose with their families.”

Photo links

KSC: STS-88 preflight photos
NASA: STS-88 photos

Here are quick external links to every NASA STS-88 photo containing Sergei! They are linked to details pages; you can download low- or high-resolution images from these.