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STS-57 flight stack
Mission-specific Space Shuttle flight stack
Vehicle and mission dossier
STS-57
STS-57 introduced the commercially developed SPACEHAB pressurized module, adding crew-accessible experiment volume for 22 materials, life-science, and technology investigations. Endeavour also rendezvoused with and retrieved ESA's EURECA satellite; David Low and Peter Wisoff manually folded two antennas during an before completing planned station-work tests.
Flight profile
- Launch
- June 21, 1993
- Landing
- July 1, 1993
- Mission duration
- 9d 23h 44m
Places and recovery
Vehicle record
- Orbiter
- Space Shuttle Endeavour
- Mission or test
- STS-57
- Configuration
- , external tank, two , and three main engines
- Status
- Mission hardware disposition recorded by component
- Mission type
- Crewed orbital operations and research
- Crew and station travelers
- 6
- Program
- Space Shuttle
- Crew complement
- 6
- Outcome
- Completed
- Archive classification
- Human spaceflight
- Primary objective
- Space Shuttle Endeavour mission that retrieved the European Retrievable Carrier and carried SPACEHAB experiments.
Flight objectives
- Launch Endeavour and its crew safely into .
- Space Shuttle Endeavour mission that retrieved the European Retrievable Carrier and carried SPACEHAB experiments.
- Complete the mission's assigned payload, , research, deployment, servicing, or logistics work.
- Return Endeavour and the landing crew safely to Earth.
Flight timeline
- June 21, 1993LaunchEndeavour carried the first SPACEHAB research module.
- June 24, 1993EURECA capturedCanadarm grappled the free-flying European platform.
- June 25, 1993Low and Wisoff folded stuck antennas and then completed planned work tests.
- July 1, 1993Kennedy landingEndeavour returned EURECA, SPACEHAB samples, and six crew members.
