Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on STS-81, the fifth Shuttle-Mir docking mission, delivering astronaut Jerry Linenger to the station and returning John Blaha to Earth after 118 days while transferring nearly 6,000 pounds of logistics.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11.9 T
- Flight
- 81st
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 12 January 1997, 09:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1997-001
- Launches in 1997
- 1st of 89
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