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Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-74
Lockheed Martin Space OperationsLaunch Successful

STS-74

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This page records Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-74 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.

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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission

STS-74 was the fourth mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, and the second docking of the Space Shuttle with Mir. Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A on 12 November 1995. The mission ended 8 days later with the landing of Atlantis back at Kennedy. It was the second in a series of seven straight missions to the station flown by Atlantis.

Launch vehicle
Space Shuttle
Mission type
Human Exploration
Destination orbit
Low Earth Orbit
Spacecraft
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Destination
Mir
Launch pad
Launch Complex 39A
Provider
Lockheed Martin Space Operations
Programs
Shuttle–Mir, Space Shuttle, Mir

The vehicle

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Space Shuttle
Launch vehicle

Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

Height
56.1 m
Diameter
8 m
Stages
2
Recorded launches
135
First flight
1981-04-12

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Launch site & orbit

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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