Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space
STS-72, launched aboard Endeavour on 11 January 1996, was tasked with capturing a Japanese spacecraft after ten months in orbit.
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This, as well as deploying and retrieving a small free-flying satellite and evaluating tools for the assembly and maintenance of the International Space Station (ISS).
On this day Haiti also became a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.