Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-78, carrying the Life and Microgravity Spacelab module for over 40 experiments conducted by five space agencies and ten countries, the longest shuttle mission to that point at nearly 17 days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 22.8 T
- Flight
- 78th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 20 June 1996, 14:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1996-036
- Launches in 1996
- 39th of 77
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