Orbital Contingency Test Flight

STS-8W Mission insignia Mission statistics Mission name STS-8W Space shuttle Patriot Spacecraft mass TBD Launch pad SLC-7 Launch date July 15, 2009, 6:03:10 p.m. EDT (22:03 UTC) Landing July 31, 2009, 10:48 a.m. EDT (14:48 UTC) Mission duration TBD Number of orbits TBD Orbital period 94 minutes Orbital inclination 90° Distance traveled TBD Related missions Previous mission Next mission STS-7W STS-10W

STS-9W Mission insignia Mission statistics Mission name STS-9W Space shuttle Terra Nova Launch pad SLC-7 Launch date NET March 8, 2010 Landing TBD Mission duration TBD Number of orbits TBD Orbital period 94 minutes Orbital altitude TBD Orbital inclination 90° Distance traveled TBD

Patriot crew

Position	Astronaut
Commander	Harold Hamilton Seventh spaceflight
Pilot	David Sanders Fifth spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1	Ixy Comeaux Seventh spaceflight

Terra Nova crew

Position	Astronaut
Commander	Frank Rosewood Third spaceflight
Pilot	Anatoly Orlav Third spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1	Daniel Baxter Sixth spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2	Thomas Kincaid Second spaceflight
Mission Specialist 3	Frank Whitaker Second spaceflight

Mission parameters

• Mass:
• Perigee:
• Apogee:
• Inclination:
  • 90°
• Period:
  • 87.6 minutes

Docking

• First docking: July 17, 1975 - 16:19:09 UTC
• Last undocking: July 19, 1975 - 15:26:12 UTC
• Time docked: 1 day, 23 hours, 07 minutes, 03 seconds