Mission Collection

STS-87: Space Shuttle Columbia

Columbia's STS-87 mission, November 19, 1997 to December 5, 1997. Preserved in the spacearchive.ai collection.

OrbiterColumbia

LaunchedNovember 19, 1997

LandedDecember 5, 1997

Records in archive2

Mission Overview

STS-87 was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Columbia. It launched on November 19, 1997 and returned on December 5, 1997.

The spacearchive.ai STS-87 collection brings together 2 records from the mission.

These records document the mission in the words and images of the people who flew and supported it.

STS-87 in the Archive

A working snapshot of what the collection holds today. The public catalog shows descriptive metadata; full media and transcripts are available through research access.

2Records

2Video

0Audio

0Transcribed

0%Transcribed & indexed

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AST-00603Video · Nov 1997 (est.)

Descriptive summary pending processing.

AST-00604Video · 1997-11-19

Descriptive summary pending processing.

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Notable Spoken History

Much of the STS-87 collection has been transcribed and speaker-labeled. Timestamped transcript excerpts will be featured here. Full transcripts are available through research access.

Official Sources

Primary references for STS-87. spacearchive.ai is an independent archive and is not affiliated with NASA.

NASA — STS-87 Mission Summary
National Archives (NARA) — National Archives Catalog

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