64th Space Shuttle Mission

19th Flight of Discovery

Crew:

Richard N. Richards, Commander

L. Blaine Hammond, Jr., Pilot

Susan J. Helms, Mission Specialist

Carl J. Meade, Mission Specialist

Mark C. Lee, Mission Specialist

J.M. Linenger, Mission Specialist

This was the first flight of the Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE), an optical radar instrument using laser pulses instead of radio waves to study Earth's atmosphere.