Space Shuttle Endeavour flew STS-72 to retrieve Japan's Space Flyer Unit microgravity research satellite after nearly a year in orbit, while also deploying and retrieving the OAST-Flyer science platform during two spacewalks.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.6 T
- Flight
- 74th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 11 January 1996, 09:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1996-001
- Launches in 1996
- 1st of 77
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