Space Shuttle Atlantis flew the STS-66 mission carrying the third Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-3) Spacelab payload to study the Sun's effect on Earth's atmosphere, plus the German-US CRISTA-SPAS free-flyer, deployed and later retrieved.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11.7 T
- Flight
- 66th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 3 November 1994, 16:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1994-073
- Launches in 1994
- 76th of 93
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