1996 · Lockheed Martin Space Operations
STS-72
successSpace Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-72
STS-72 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission to capture and return to Earth a Japanese 16 spacecraft known as Space Flyer Unit (SFU). The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 11 January 1996.
Overview
- Date / time
- January 11, 1996 at 09:41 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B
- Mission
- STS-72
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit