STS-69
Sign in to saveSTS-69 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission, and the second flight of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF). The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 7 September 1995.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-69
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-69
- Spaceflight.image
- Wake Shield Facility on STS-69 (STS069-723-072).jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Endeavour Canadarm grapples the Wake Shield Facility, prior to its deployment
- Spaceflight.insignia
- STS-69 patch.svg
- Spaceflight.insignia_caption
- STS-69 mission patch
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Research
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 171
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 10 days, 20 hours, 29 minutes, 56 seconds
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 5
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- STS-69_crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Left to right – Seated: Cockrell, Walker; Standing: Gernhardt, Newman, Voss
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-73
- Follows
- STS-70
- Duration
- 937736
- Mass
- 11499
- Orbital period
- 91.4
- Image
- STS-69 crew.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- Commons category
- STS-69
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1995-09-07
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- crew members
- Michael L. Gernhardt
- vessel
- Endeavour
- location of landing
- Launch and Landing Facility
- orbits completed
- 171
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1995-09-18
- Commons gallery
- STS-69
- orbital inclination
- 28.4
- periapsis
- 321
- apoapsis
- 321
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
Sources (4)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Spacewalks
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-69 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission, and the second flight of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF). The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 7 September 1995.
==Crew==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-69” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.