The German Spacelab D-2, was flown to study automation androbotics, material and life sciences, the Earth and its atmosphere and astronomy. Landed May 6, 1993 at Edwards Air Force Base, CA. Mission Duration: 239 hours 39 minutes 59 seconds.
From Spaceflori, this presentation displays a piece of a "flipper door" once installed on the Space Shuttle Columbia and flown several times in space! This flown artifact is not sourced from the ill-fated STS-107 flight but was removed in 1997 as part of the usual post-flight maintenance and ...
Twenty-first Columbia flight. Two satellites, the Wake Shield Facility (WSF) and the Retrievable Far and Exztreme Ultraviolet Spectrograph-Shuttle Pallet Satellite II (OREFEUS-SPAS) were both deployed and retrieved on this flight. The WSF was flown to test the growth of thinn semi-conductor films ...
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Seventeenth Columbia flight. The International Microgravity Laboratory-2 (ML-2) will use furnaces and other facilities to produce a variety of material structures, from crystals to metal alloys. Over 80 investigations will be studied as prepared by over 200 scientists from six space agencies. ...
Eighteenth Columbia flight. The United States Microgravity Laboratory-2 (USML-2) was the prime payload on this flight. Experiments on gravity in combusion flame spreading, semiconductor crystals and theoretical models of fluid physics were tested. The Orbital Acceleration Measurement System (SAMS) ...
The Columbia Accident Report comes with a bonus Windows CDROM featuring NASA movies, plus over 700 pages of additional material. This reproduction of the official report issued by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board comes with many pages of additional documentation about the flight of ...
Tenth Columbia flight. Deployed Syncom IV-5 (Reimbursable - DOD) , a geostationary communications satellite also known as Leasat, for the U.S. Navy. Also retrieved the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) deployed on STS 41-C on April 6, 1984. Landed January 20, 1990 at Edwards Air Force Base, ...