On Sept. 7, 1995, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-69.
This was the 100th successful crew spaceflight mission for NASA. Endeavour lifted off from NASA's historic launch site at Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A. During the 11-day mission, five crewmembers did science experiments, deployed and retrieved a satellite called Spartan 201, and conducted a nearly seven-hour-long spacewalk to practice methods future astronauts would use to build the International Space Station. The astronauts also deployed the Wake Shield Facility, a saucer-shaped satellite that flew free of the Shuttle for several days. This was the first time two different payloads were retrieved and deployed during the same mission.
This was the 100th successful crew spaceflight mission for NASA. Endeavour lifted off from NASA's historic launch site at Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A. During the 11-day mission, five crewmembers did science experiments, deployed and retrieved a satellite called Spartan 201, and conducted a nearly seven-hour-long spacewalk to practice methods future astronauts would use to build the International Space Station. The astronauts also deployed the Wake Shield Facility, a saucer-shaped satellite that flew free of the Shuttle for several days. This was the first time two different payloads were retrieved and deployed during the same mission.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04In 1995, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-69.
00:08This was the 100th successful crew spaceflight mission for NASA.
00:12Endeavour lifted off from NASA's historic launch site at Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A.
00:16During the 11-day mission, five crew members did science experiments,
00:20deployed and retrieved a satellite called Spartan 201, and conducted a nearly
00:247-hour long spacewalk to practice methods future astronauts would use to build the International Space Station.
00:28The astronauts also deployed the WakeShield facility,
00:32a saucer-shaped satellite that flew free of the shuttle for several days.
00:36This was the first time two different payloads were retrieved and deployed during the same mission.
00:40And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:44NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology