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STS-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

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
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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
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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • 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.

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