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…

Buying my Art

You can have selected pictures of mine printed on Pixieset (Selective Coloration), PictRS (Landscapes) or VIEWBUG (Both and more), if you like them. Please click on one of the links above or the buttons below …

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Meine Kunst Kaufen

Sie können einige ausgewählte Bilder bei Pixieset (Selective Kolorierung), bei PictRS (Landschaften) oder VIEWBUG (Beide und mehr) kaufen, falls Sie Ihnen Diese gefallen, klicken Sie auf einem der obigen Links oder den einer den unteren Buttons…

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June 21

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