NASA's STS-93 mission will launch the Chandra telescope to conduct its X-ray exploration of the Universe. Amongst crew members will beCNES astronaut Michel Tognini, whose previous experience includes the 1992 Antares mission to Mir. The shuttle mission will be commanded for the first time by a woman, Eileen Collins.
Presented by Dominique Detain, this live broadcast incorporates NASA feeds of the shuttle Columbia on the launchpad; VT on the exploration of the X-ray universe by XMM and Chandra; sountdown, sequence cutoff, gvs control room, ESA postmortem and credits, then switch to NASA TV gvs shuttle on launchpad.

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