| NASA Center: |
Kennedy Space Center |
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| Image # : |
94PC-1392 |
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| Date : |
11/3/1994
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Title
STS-66 Launch
Full Description
The 66th Space Shuttle flight begins with a nearly ontime liftoff of Space
Shuttle Mission STS-66 into clear Florida skies. The orbiter Atlantis returned
to space after an approximately two year absence with a liftoff from Launch Pad
39B at 11:59:43 a.m. EST, about four minutes after the launch window opened.
The planned 11 day flight will continue NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, a
comprehensive international collaboration to study how Earth's environment is
changing and how human beings affect that change. Primary payloads for the last
Shuttle flight of 1994 include the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and
Science (ATLAS-3), making its third flight, and the German built Cryogenic
Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere Shuttle Pallet
Satellite (CRISTA-SPAS), which will be deployed and later retrieved during the
mission.
Mission commander is Donald R. McMonagle; Curtis L. Brown Jr. is the pilot;
Ellen Ochoa is the payload commander, and the three mission specialists are
Joseph R. Tanner, Scott E. Parazynski, and Jean-Francois Clervoy, a French
citizen who is with the European Space Agency.
Keywords
Atlantis STS-66 Launch
Subject Category
Space Shuttle, Rocket Launches,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
KSC
- Center Number:
94PC-1392
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-000764
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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