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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
Launch vehicle
Space Shuttle →
Launch provider
Lockheed Space Operations Company →

Payloads deployed · 1

STS 55
LEO