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Headquarters, Washington, DC
February 5, 1999
(Phone: 202/358-1639)
James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 281/483-5111)
RELEASE: 99-15
Space Shuttle managers this week decided to reorder the next two
Shuttle missions, targeting a May launch for Discovery on STS-96, the
next International Space Station mission, ahead of a July launch of
Columbia on STS-93, carrying the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Planning
dates also were set for missions throughout 1999.
* STS-96 DISCOVERY Space Station Assembly Flight 2A.1 May 20, 1999
* STS-101 ATLANTIS Space Station Assembly Flight 2A.2 Oct 14, 1999
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