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{{Short description|1998 American crewed spaceflight to Mir}}
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{{Infobox spaceflight
| name               = STS-89
| names_list         = [[Space Transportation System]]-89
| image              = N6p-024-low.jpg
| image_caption      = ''Endeavour'' docked to ''Mir'', as viewed from a window on the ''Kvant''-2 module
| insignia           = Sts-89-patch.svg
| spacecraft         = {{OV|105}}
| mission_type       = [[Shuttle-Mir program|Shuttle-Mir]]
| operator           = [[NASA]]
| COSPAR_ID          = <!-- Wikidata -->
| SATCAT             = <!-- Wikidata -->
| orbits_completed   = 
| distance_travelled = {{convert|5800000|km|mi|sp=us}}
| mission_duration   = 8 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes, 4 seconds
| launch_mass        = 
| landing_mass       = {{convert|114131|kg}}
| payload_mass       = {{convert|7748|kg}}
| launch_site        = [[Kennedy Space Center|Kennedy]], [[Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A|LC-39A]]
| launch_date        = {{Start date text|23 January 1998, 02:48:15|timezone=yes}}&nbsp;UTC
| landing_date       = {{End date text|31 January 1998, 22:36|timezone=yes}}&nbsp;UTC
| landing_site       = Kennedy, [[Shuttle Landing Facility|SLF&nbsp;Runway&nbsp;15]]
| crew_size          = 7
| crew_members       = {{Unbulleted list|[[Terrence W. Wilcutt]]|[[Joe F. Edwards, Jr.]]|[[James F. Reilly, II]]|[[Michael P. Anderson]]|[[Bonnie J. Dunbar]]|[[Salizhan Sharipov]]}}
| crew_launching     = {{Unbulleted list|[[Andrew S. W. Thomas]]}}
| crew_landing       = {{Unbulleted list|[[David Wolf (astronaut)|David A. Wolf]]}}
| crew_photo         = STS-89 crew.jpg
| crew_photo_caption = Left to right - Back row: Wolf, Sharipov, Reilly, Thomas, Anderson; Front row: Edwards, Wilcutt, Dunbar
| docking            = {{Infobox spaceflight/Dock
   |docking_target      = [[Mir]]
   |docking_type        = dock
   |docking_port        = [[Mir Docking Module|SO]]&nbsp;starboard
   |docking_date        = 24 January 1998, 20:14:15 UTC
   |undocking_date      = 29 January 1998, 16:56 UTC
   |time_docked         = 4&nbsp;days, 20&nbsp;hours, 41&nbsp;minutes 45&nbsp;seconds
 }}
| apsis              = gee
| orbit_epoch        = 
| orbit_reference    = [[geocentric orbit|Geocentric]]
| orbit_regime       = [[Low Earth orbit|Low Earth]]
| orbit_periapsis    = {{convert|359|km}}
| orbit_apoapsis     = {{convert|382|km}}
| orbit_period       = 92.0 min
| orbit_inclination  = 51.60 degrees
| programme          = [[Space Shuttle program]]
| previous_mission   = [[STS-87]] (88)
| next_mission       = [[STS-90]] (90)
}}
'''STS-89''' was a [[Space Shuttle]] mission to the ''[[Mir]]'' space station flown by Space Shuttle [[Space Shuttle Endeavour|''Endeavour'']], and launched from [[Kennedy Space Center]], Florida on 22 January 1998.

==Crew==
{{Spaceflight crew
|terminology       = Astronaut
|position1         = Commander
|crew1_up          = {{flagicon|USA}} [[Terrence W. Wilcutt]]
|flights1_up       = Third
|position2         = Pilot
|crew2_up          = {{flagicon|USA}} [[Joe F. Edwards, Jr.]]
|flights2_up       = Only
|position3         = Mission Specialist 1
|crew3_up          = {{flagicon|USA}} [[James F. Reilly, II]]
|flights3_up       = First
|position4         = Mission Specialist 2<br>Flight Engineer
|crew4_up          = {{flagicon|USA}} [[Michael P. Anderson]]
|flights4_up       = First
|position5         = Mission Specialist 3
|crew5_up          = {{flagicon|USA}} [[Bonnie J. Dunbar]]
|flights5_up       = Fifth and last
|position6         = Mission Specialist 4
|crew6_up          = {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Salizhan Sharipov]]
|flights6_up       = First
|agency6_up        = [[Russian Federal Space Agency|RKA]]
|position7         = Mission Specialist 5
|crew7_up          = {{flagicon|AUS}}/{{flagicon|USA}} [[Andrew S. W. Thomas]]
|flights7_up       = Second
|expedition7_up    = [[Mir EO-24|EO-24]]
|crew7_down        = {{flagicon|USA}} [[David Wolf (astronaut)|David A. Wolf]]
|flights7_down     = Second
|expedition7_down  = [[Mir EO-24|EO-24]]
}}

===Crew notes===
STS-89 was originally scheduled to return [[Wendy B. Lawrence]] but returned David A. Wolf (Mir 24–25/[[STS-86]]) and left Andrew Thomas on [[Mir]]. Thomas returned on [[STS-91]].

=== Crew seat assignments ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Seat<ref name="spacefacts">{{Cite web |title=STS-89 |url=http://spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-89.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520023309/http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-80.htm |archive-date=May 20, 2018 |access-date=January 3, 2018 |publisher=Spacefacts}}</ref>
! Launch
! Landing
|rowspan=8| [[File:Space Shuttle seating plan.svg|150px]]<br />Seats 1–4 are on the flight deck.<br />Seats 5–7 are on the mid-deck.
|-
! 1
|colspan=2| Wilcutt
|-
! 2
|colspan=2| Edwards
|-
! 3
|Reilly
|Dunbar
|-
! 4
|colspan=2| Anderson
|-
! 5
|Dunbar
|Reilly
|-
! 6
|colspan=2| Sharipov
|-
! 7
|Thomas
| Wolf
|}
==Mission highlights==
[[File:STS-89 night launch II.jpg | thumb|220x124px | right | alt= The space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-89, lighting up the night time sky on its way to Mir. |
STS-89 launch]]

STS-89 launched on January 22, 1998 and was the eighth of nine planned missions to [[Mir]] and the fifth involving an exchange of U.S. astronauts. Astronaut [[David Wolf (astronaut)|David Wolf]], who had been on Mir since late September 1997, was replaced by Astronaut [[Andy Thomas|Andrew Thomas]]. Thomas spent approximately 4 months on the orbiting Russian facility before returning to Earth when [[Space Shuttle Discovery|''Discovery'']] docked to Mir in late May during [[STS-91]]. 
[[File:STS-89 Endeavour mission closure.jpg|thumb|right|''Endeavour'' lands at Kennedy Space Center, 31 January 1998.]]
During the mission, more than {{convert|3175|kg}} of experiments, supplies and hardware were transferred between the two spacecraft.

==Experiments and payloads==
SPACEHAB Payloads included the Advanced X-Ray Detector (ADV XDT), Advanced Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (ADV CGBA), EORF, Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM) Experiment, Intra-Vehicular Radiation Environment Measurements by the Real-Time Radiation Monitor (RME-1312), Space Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS), VOA and the Volatile Removal Assembly prototype for the ISS [[Life support system#Water recovery systems|Water Recovery System]].

In-cabin payloads included the Microgravity Plant Nutrient Experiment (MPNE), Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with Pulsed Local Exhaust (SIMPLEX), Closed Equilibrated Biological Aquatic System (CEBAS), TeleMedicine Instrumentation Pack (TMIP), Global Positioning System Development Test Objective (GPS DTO), Human Performance (HP) Experiment, MSD, [[EarthKAM]], Orbiter Space Vision System (OSVS) Shuttle Condensate Collection (RME-1331), Thermo-Electric Holding Module (TEHM), Space Linear Acceleration Mass Measurement Device (DSO 914), Co-Culture Experiments (CoCult) and the Biochemistry of 3-D Tissue Engineering (BIO3D).

[[Getaway Special]] experiments included the [[University of Michigan]] G-093 – Vortex Ring Transit Experiment (VORTEX), the German Aerospace Center and University Giessen G-141 – Structure of Marangoni Convection in Floating Zones Payload, the German Aerospace Center and the Technical University of Clausthal G-145 Glass Fining Experiment and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] G-432 canister containing 5 crystal growth and material sciences experiments.

==Coelophysis bone==
Additionally, the skull of a [[Coelophysis]] was brought onboard the Mir during this mission. It became the second dinosaur [[fossil]] brought into space (the first being fossilized eggshells and bones from Maiasaura in 1985, during the mission [[STS-51-F]]).<ref name=dinosinspace>{{cite web|author=Chure, D.|year=2009|title=dino bones in space – was it a PR thing|url=http://dml.cmnh.org/2009Oct/msg00664.html|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Natural History|access-date=12 November 2011|archive-date=8 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111108075202/http://dml.cmnh.org/2009Oct/msg00664.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Mission insignia==
The insignia depicts ''Endeavour'' docked to Mir above the planet Earth. The white inside line in the shape of the number eight and the nine stars symbolize the flight's numerical designation in the Space Transportation System's mission sequence. The [[International Space Station]] is in the background.

==See also==
{{Portal|Spaceflight}}
*[[List of human spaceflights]]
*[[List of Space Shuttle missions]]
*[[Outline of space science]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-89/mission-sts-89.html NASA mission summary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062707/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-89/mission-sts-89.html |date=4 March 2016 }}
* [http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle89.htm STS-89 Video Highlights] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005820/http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle89.htm |date=3 December 2013 }}

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