Space Shuttle Atlantis flew STS-79, the fourth Shuttle-Mir docking mission, delivering supplies and swapping crew: astronaut John Blaha replaced Shannon Lucid, who returned to Earth after a then-record 188 days in space.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 16.5 T
- Flight
- 79th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 16 September 1996, 08:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1996-057
- Launches in 1996
- 61st of 77
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