STS-76
Sign in to saveSTS-76 was NASA's 76th Space Shuttle mission, and the 16th mission for Atlantis. STS-76 launched on 22 March 1996 at 08:13:04 UTC from Kennedy Space Center, launch pad 39B. STS-76 lasted over 9 days, traveled about while orbiting Earth an estimated 145 times, and landing at 13:28:57 UTC on 31 March 1996 at Edwards Air Force Base, runway 22.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-76
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-76
- Spaceflight.image
- STS-76 docking with MIR.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Atlantis mates with Mir Docking Module
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Shuttle–Mir
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 9 days, 5 hours, 15 minutes, 53 seconds (achieved)
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 145
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 22 March 1996, 08:13:03.999 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39B
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 6 up5 down
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- 31 March 1996, 13:28:56.8 UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Edwards, Runway22
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 51.60°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 92.50 minutes
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STS-76 was NASA's 76th Space Shuttle mission, and the 16th mission for Atlantis. STS-76 launched on 22 March 1996 at 08:13:04 UTC from Kennedy Space Center, launch pad 39B. STS-76 lasted over 9 days, traveled about while orbiting Earth an estimated 145 times, and landing at 13:28:57 UTC on 31 March 1996 at Edwards Air Force Base, runway 22.
The flight was the third Shuttle mission to dock with the Russian Space Station Mir, as part of the Shuttle–Mir program, carrying astronaut Shannon Lucid to the orbital laboratory to replace NASA astronaut Norman Thagard. STS-76 also carried a SPACEHAB single module along with Lucid, and on flight day 6, Linda M. Godwin and Michael R. Clifford performed the first U.S. spacewalk around two docked spacecraft since the last Skylab mission in 1974.