STS-93 crew (L-R): Eileen Collins, Steven Hawley, Jeffrey Ashby, Michel Tognini, Catherine Coleman.
STS-93 mission patch
Space Shuttle Columbia blasted off July 23, 1999 with the first female commander of any shuttle mission. Its crew consisted of Commander Eileen Collins, Pilot Jeffrey Ashby, Michel Tognini (Centre National d'etudes Spatiales, CNES), Steven Hawley and Catherine Coleman.
The mission's primary objective was to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the most sophisticated of its kind ever built.
After this flight, Columbia went out of service for upgrading and did not fly again until 2002 (STS-109).
The crew returned to Earth July 28.
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