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STS-61: Mission highlights & Overview

STS-61 was NASA's first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on December 2, 1993, from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The mission restored the spaceborne observatory's vision (marred by spherical aberration in its mirror) with the installation of a new main camera and…

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STS-61 topic overview

The analysis highlights Mission highlights and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around STS-61.

Related topics
57
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
59
Extracted relationships
58
Concept neighborhoods
13
Bridge connections
59

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Mission highlights · 42 topics
Overview · 15 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Apogee altitude
576 km (358 mi)
Berthing date
December 4, 1993, 09:26 UTC
Contractor
Rockwell International
COSPAR ID
1993-075A
Crew size
7
Distance travelled
7,135,464 km (4,433,772 mi)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Mission highlights

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How STS-61 connects Entity context

The extracted context around STS-61 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, STS-61 → American TV, Covey, During, Episode, Home Improvement, May, Reality Bytes, Season, The, The Hubble, The STS-61, Tool Time Another extracted example is STS-61 → Archived March, Archived November, Cape Canaveral, GSFC, NASA, Recollections, Wayback MachineInvolvement, Wayback MachineSTS-61 Video Highlights, WFPC2. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

STS-61

Top relations

related to Post-landing crew appearances · 12
STS-61 → American TV, Covey, During, Episode, Home Improvement, May, Reality Bytes, Season, The, The Hubble, The STS-61, Tool Time
related to External links · 9
STS-61 → Archived March, Archived November, Cape Canaveral, GSFC, NASA, Recollections, Wayback MachineInvolvement, Wayback MachineSTS-61 Video Highlights, WFPC2
Members · 7
STS-61 → Claude Nicollier, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Kathryn C. Thornton, Ken Bowersox, Richard O. Covey, Story Musgrave, Thomas D. Akers
Apogee altitude · 1
STS-61 → 576 km (358 mi)
Berthing date · 1
STS-61 → December 4, 1993, 09:26 UTC
Contractor · 1
STS-61 → Rockwell International
COSPAR ID · 1
STS-61 → 1993-075A
Crew size · 1
STS-61 → 7
Distance travelled · 1
STS-61 → 7,135,464 km (4,433,772 mi)
EVA duration · 1
STS-61 → 35h, 28m

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

utc telescope mission flight hoffman hst eva space musgrave two crew solar endeavour thornton hubble 1993 array astronauts akers december

STS-61 relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 58 structured relationships around STS-61. Examples in this analysis include STS-61 → Apogee altitude → 576 km (358 mi) and STS-61 → Berthing date → December 4, 1993, 09:26 UTC. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
STS-61Apogee altitude576 km (358 mi)1.00infobox
STS-61Berthing dateDecember 4, 1993, 09:26 UTC1.00infobox
STS-61ContractorRockwell International1.00infobox
STS-61COSPAR ID1993-075A1.00infobox
STS-61Crew size71.00infobox
STS-61Distance travelled7,135,464 km (4,433,772 mi)1.00infobox
STS-61EVA duration35h, 28m1.00infobox
STS-61EVAs51.00infobox
STS-61Inclination28.45°1.00infobox
STS-61Landing dateDecember 13, 1993, 05:25:33 UTC1.00infobox
STS-61Landing mass94,972 kg (209,377 lb)1.00infobox
STS-61Landing siteKennedy Space Center, SLF Runway 331.00infobox
STS-61Launch dateDecember 2, 1993, 09:27:00 UTC1.00infobox
STS-61Launch mass113,541 kg (250,315 lb)1.00infobox
STS-61Launch siteKennedy Space Center, LC-39B1.00infobox
STS-61MembersRichard O. Covey1.00infobox
STS-61MembersKen Bowersox1.00infobox
STS-61MembersKathryn C. Thornton1.00infobox
STS-61MembersClaude Nicollier1.00infobox
STS-61MembersJeffrey A. Hoffman1.00infobox
STS-61MembersStory Musgrave1.00infobox
STS-61MembersThomas D. Akers1.00infobox
STS-61Mission duration10 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, 33 seconds (achieved)1.00infobox
STS-61Mission typeFirst Hubble Space Telescope servicing1.00infobox
STS-61NamesSpace Transportation System-611.00infobox
STS-61OperatorNASA1.00infobox
STS-61Orbits completed1631.00infobox
STS-61Payload mass8,011 kg (17,661 lb)1.00infobox
STS-61Perigee altitude291 km (181 mi)1.00infobox
STS-61Period93.30 minutes1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around STS-61 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Mission, Shuttle and Landing. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • STS-61
    • Mission
    • Shuttle
    • Landing
    • Crew
    • Launch
    • Payload
    • Endeavour
    • Telescope
    • Musgrave
    • Flight
    • Canadarm
    • Km
  • sts-61
    • Mission
    • Shuttle
    • Landing
    • Crew
    • Launch
    • Payload
    • Endeavour
    • Telescope
    • Musgrave
    • Flight
    • Canadarm
    • Km
  • space shuttle endeavour
    • Landing
    • Km
    • Mi
    • Telescope
    • Shuttle
    • Space
    • Mission
    • Endeavour
    • Sts-61
    • Launch
    • Payload
    • December
  • kennedy space center
    • Telescope
    • Shuttle
    • Mission
    • Endeavour
    • Landing
    • Sts-61
    • Km
    • Mi
    • Hours
    • Minutes
    • December
    • Eva
  • new solar arrays
    • Solar
    • Array
    • Installed
    • Thornton
    • Ft
    • Controllers
    • Akers
    • Two
    • Flight
    • Telescope
    • Eva
    • Bay
  • jeffrey a. hoffman
    • Musgrave
    • Nicollier
    • Utc
    • Eva
    • Telescope
    • Installed
    • Shuttle
    • Array
    • Solar
    • Two
    • Landing
    • Sts-61
  • shuttle landing facility
    • Landing
    • Shuttle
    • Launch
    • Space
    • Payload
    • Endeavour
    • Sts-61
    • Km
    • Mi
    • Telescope
    • December
    • Hours
  • utc
    • December
    • Hst
    • Endeavour
    • Eva
    • Hoffman
    • Nicollier
    • Bay
    • Telescope
    • Landing
    • Endeavour's
    • Installed
    • Minutes

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For STS-61, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects STS-61 with Mission highlights. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
STS-61Mission highlights · splits 17 ⟂ 43
STS-61Overview · splits 44 ⟂ 16

Map overview Semantic statistics

STS-61

Nodes60
Edges59
Triples58
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033333
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around STS-61 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Mission highlights & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — STS-61 · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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