NASA's Columbia flew STS-80, the longest Space Shuttle mission at nearly 18 days. The crew deployed and retrieved the free-flying Wake Shield Facility and ORFEUS-SPAS astrophysics satellites, though two planned spacewalks were scrubbed after an airlock hatch jammed.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 22.1 T
- Flight
- 80th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 19 November 1996, 19:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1996-065
- Launches in 1996
- 69th of 77
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