STS-87 Mission Patch

STS-87 United States Microgravity Payload - 4 (USMP-4), Spartan-201 rescue 11/19/1997 12/05/1997 88th Space Shuttle Mission 24th Flight of Columbia Crew: Kevin R. Kregel, Commander Steven W. Lindsey, Pilot Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist Takao Doi, Mission Specialist Winston E. Scott, Mission Specialist Leonid K. Kadenyuk, Payload Specialist Primary payloads of the mission were the U.S. Microgravity Payload-4 (USMP-4) pressurized space laboratory and the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy-201-04 (SPARTAN-201-04) free-flying deployable and retrievable solar observing spacecraft.