STS-88 Mission Specialist Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (center), a Russian cosmonaut, checks out equipment inside a module at the Space Station Processing Facility. Betsy Ahearn (left) and James Burrows, with Boeing, assist him. Mission STS-88 is targeted for launch on Dec. 3, 1998. It is the first U.S. flight for the assembly of the International Space Station and will carry the Unity connecting module
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date November 6, 1998