STS-77
Sign in to saveSTS-77 was the 77th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission began from launch pad 39B from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 19 May 1996 lasting 10 days and 40 minutes and completing 161 revolutions before landing on runway 33. The defense and aerospace technology company L'Garde was responsible for the design and manufacture of the Antenna in the Inflatable Antenna Experiment, a key component of the STS-77 mission.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-77
- Spaceflight.image
- Inflatable Antenna Experiment.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- The Inflatable Antenna Experiment in free flight
- Spaceflight.insignia
- STS-77 patch.svg
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Microgravity research
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 161
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 10 days, 40 minutes, 10 seconds
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39B
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 6
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- STS-77_crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Left to right – Seated: Brown, Casper; Standing, Bursch, Runco, Garneau, Thomas
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-78
- Follows
- STS-76
- Duration
- 866358
- Mass
- 12233
- Orbital period
- 90.1
- Image
- STS-77 launch.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- Commons category
- STS-77
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1996-05-19
- crew members
- Marc Garneau
- vessel
- Endeavour
- location of landing
- Launch and Landing Facility
- orbits completed
- 161
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1996-05-29
- Commons gallery
- STS-77
- orbital inclination
- 39.0
- periapsis
- 278
- apoapsis
- 287
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Mission insignia
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-77 was the 77th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission began from launch pad 39B from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 19 May 1996 lasting 10 days and 40 minutes and completing 161 revolutions before landing on runway 33. The defense and aerospace technology company L'Garde was responsible for the design and manufacture of the Antenna in the Inflatable Antenna Experiment, a key component of the STS-77 mission.
==Crew==
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