STS-81
Sign in to saveSTS-81 was a January 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-81
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-81
- Spaceflight.image
- Mir from STS-81.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- View of Mir from Atlantis, with the Soyuz-TM Fregat and Progress 233 docked
- Spaceflight.insignia
- Sts-81-patch.png
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Shuttle-Mir
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 160
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 10days, 4hours, 56minutes, 30seconds
- 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-81_crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Left to right - Front: Jett, Baker; Back: Grunsfeld, Blaha, Wisoff, Linenger, Ivins
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-82
- Follows
- STS-80
- Duration
- 881721
- Mass
- 2250
- Orbital period
- 92.2
- Image
- STS-81 Launch.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
Show 14 more facts
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1997-01-22
- Commons gallery
- STS-81
- location of landing
- Kennedy Space Center
- Commons category
- STS-81
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1997-01-12
- crew members
- John E. Blaha
- vessel
- Atlantis
- orbits completed
- 180
- orbital inclination
- 51.6
- periapsis
- 380
- apoapsis
- 392
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
Sources (4)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Wake-up calls
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-81 was a January 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station.
==Crew==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-81” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.