1993 · Lockheed Space Operations Company
STS-55
successSpace Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-55
STS-55 (Space Transportation System 55), or D-2 was the 55th overall flight of the US Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Shuttle Columbia. This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations. The experiments ranged from biology sciences to simple earth observations.
Overview
- Date / time
- April 26, 1993 at 02:50 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A
- Mission
- STS-55
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit