NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

STS-57

Launch Time
Mon Jun 21, 1993 13:07 UTC

Rocket

Space Shuttle Endeavour
NASA
Status: Retired
Price: $450.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 30,250 kN
Payload to LEO: 27,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 3,810 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 2
Rocket Height: 56.1 m

Vehicles

Kennedy SLF Runway 33

OV-105

Flight #4
159 day turnaround

Mission Details

STS-57

During the course of the ten-day flight, the astronauts successfully conducted scores of biomedical and materials sciences experiments inside the pressurized SPACEHAB module. Two astronauts participated in a spacewalk and EURECA (European Retrievable Carrier) was retrieved by the crew and stowed inside Endeavour’s payload bay. EURECA was deployed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the summer of 1992 and contains several experiments to study the long-term effects of exposure to microgravity.

Total Mass: 13,074.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Stats

1993

39th orbital launch attempt

Space Shuttle

56th mission
4th mission of 1993
55th successful mission
31st consecutive successful mission