This was the first time that a manned spaceship was reflown with a second crew. The flight was cut from its planned duration of five days because of the failure of one of the three fuel cells that produced electricity and drinking water. The Remote Manipulator System was tested for the first time. ...
Ninth Columbia flight. Department of Defense mission. Other data not available - classified. Landed at Edwards Air Force Base August 13, 1989. Mission Duration: 121 hours 0 minutes 8 seconds.
The STS-109 crew - Altman, Carey and Mission Specialists Nancy Currie, John Grunsfeld, Rick Linnehan, Mike Massimino and Jim Newman - successfully completed the mission's objectives of servicing the Hubble Space Telescope. The upgrades and servicing by the crew leaves Hubble with a new power unit, ...
Twelfth Columbia flight. The First United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) studied scientific and technical questions in materials science, fluid dynamics, biotechnology and combustion science. Landed July 9, 1992 at Kennedy Space Center, FL. Mission Duration: 331 hours 30 minutes 4 seconds.
Twentieth Columbia flight. The flight carried the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS-1) in its cargo bay. There were 22 experiments conducted in the LMS involving fish embryos, rats, Bonzai plants, fluid dynamics, metallurgy and protein crystal growth. Thirteen of the life science experiments were ...
This was the twenty-third flight of Columbia. This was a reflight of the STS 83 Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. MSL was originally launched on April 4, 1997 and was intended to be in orbit for 15 days, 16 hours. The mission was cut short due to a problem with Fuel Cell #2 and ...
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Continued testing of Space Shuttle systems for qualification for operational flight. Measurement of thermal response of the orbiter in various altitudes to the sun. Nine OSS-1 (Office of Space Scheice) experiments were flown. First student experiment was flown. Landing site was changed from Edwards ...