STS-80

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STS-80 was a 1996 Space Shuttle Columbia mission focused on deploying and retrieving scientific satellites and conducting microgravity research in Earth orbit.

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instanceOf NASA spaceflight
Space Shuttle mission
carriedPayload ORFEUS-SPAS II NERFINISHED
Spacehab module NERFINISHED
Wake Shield Facility-3 NERFINISHED
commander Kenneth D. Cockrell NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
crewSize 5
deployedSatellite ORFEUS-SPAS II NERFINISHED
Wake Shield Facility-3 NERFINISHED
failedActivity planned spacewalks canceled due to airlock hatch problem
followedByMission STS-81 NERFINISHED
landingDate 1996-12-07
landingSite Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility NERFINISHED
launchDate 1996-11-19
launchSite Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B NERFINISHED
launchVehicle Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED
missionDuration 17 days 15 hours 53 minutes
missionNumberInProgram 80
missionObjective conduct microgravity experiments in Spacehab module
perform ultraviolet astronomy with ORFEUS-SPAS II
study thin-film growth with Wake Shield Facility-3
missionPatch STS-80 mission insignia NERFINISHED
missionSpecialist F. Story Musgrave NERFINISHED
Tamara E. Jernigan NERFINISHED
Thomas D. Jones NERFINISHED
notableEvent longest Space Shuttle mission at the time of flight
operator NASA
orbitApogee ~365 km
orbitInclination 28.45 degrees
orbitPerigee ~349 km
orbitType Low Earth orbit
pilot Kent V. Rominger NERFINISHED
precededByMission STS-79 NERFINISHED
primaryMissionType microgravity research
satellite deployment and retrieval
researchField astrophysics
life sciences
materials science
microgravity science
retrievedSatellite ORFEUS-SPAS II NERFINISHED
Wake Shield Facility-3 NERFINISHED
spacecraft OV-102 NERFINISHED
Space Shuttle Columbia NERFINISHED
spaceShuttleProgram Space Shuttle program NERFINISHED
yearOfSpaceflight 1996

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