STS-59 Mission Patch

62nd Space Shuttle Mission

6th Flight of Endeavour

Crew:

Sidney M. Gutierrez, Commander

Kevin P. Chilton, Pilot

Linda M. Godwin, Payload Commander

Jay Apt, Mission Specialist

Michael R. Clifford, Mission Specialist

Thomas D. Jones, Mission Specialist

The primary payload was the Space Radar Laboratory-1 (SRL-1), located in the payload bay and operated from the ground. SRL-1 included the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C, the X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) and an atmospheric instrument called Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites (MAPS).