STS-57 was a NASA Space Shuttle-Spacelab mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour that launched June 21, 1993, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission was launched on the summer solstice. During the ten-day flight, the astronauts successfully conducted scores of biomedical and materials sciences experiments inside the pressurized SPACEHAB module. Two astronauts participated in a spacewalk (EVA) and European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) was retrieved by the crew and stowed inside Endeavour’s payload bay. EURECA had been deployed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in August 1992 (STS-46) and contained several experiments to study the long-term effects of exposure to microgravity. The five-hour, fifty-minute spacewalk completed STS-57 mission’s primary goal of retrieving the EURECA science satellite. We celebrate their successful mission 32 years ago with a scale model of the Endeavour over the earth…

June 21

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