Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-81

Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-81

Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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United Space Alliance

United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

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STS-81

STS-81 was a January 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis


Serial OV-104

Launch Crew Count 6

Status Retired

Landing Time 1997-01-22T14:23:00+0000


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Crew

Michael A. Baker

Commander

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1953-10-27

Status Retired

Type Government


Brent W. Jett Jr.

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1958-10-05

Status Retired

Type Government


Jerry M. Linenger

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1955-01-09

Status Retired

Type Government


John M. Grunsfeld

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1958-10-10

Status Retired

Type Government


Marsha Ivins

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1951-04-15

Status Retired

Type Government


Peter Wisoff

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1958-08-16

Status Retired

Type Government


Space Shuttle


Height 56.10 Meters

Max Stages 2

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 28200 kN

Diameter 8.00 Meters

Mass To LEO 27500 kg

Liftoff Mass 2030 Tonnes


Launch Success 133

Consecutive Success 22

Maiden Flight 1981-04-12

Launch Failures 2


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Programs

Mir

Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996.

Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.

Shuttle–Mir

The Shuttle–Mir program was a collaborative 11-mission space program between Russia and the United States that involved American Space Shuttles visiting the Russian space station Mir, Russian cosmonauts flying on the Shuttle, and an American astronaut flying aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to engage in long-duration expeditions aboard Mir.

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