71st Space Shuttle Mission

9th Flight of Endeavour

Crew:

David M. Walker, Commander

Kenneth D. Cockrell, Pilot

James S. Voss, Payload Commander

Michael L. Gernhardt, Mission Specialist

James H. Newman, Mission Specialist

For the first time, two separate payloads were released and retrieved during a single flight. The Spartan 201-03 spacecraft, featuring the Ultraviolet Coronal Spectrometer (UVCS) and White Light Coronograph (WLC) to study the sun was deployed and retrieved.