Space shuttle Columbia's STS-93 mission deployed NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, at 22,753 kg the heaviest payload the shuttle ever carried. Commander Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a shuttle flight; Chandra remains the most powerful X-ray telescope ever launched.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 30.2 T
- Flight
- 95th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 23 July 1999, 04:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1999-040
- Launches in 1999
- 42nd of 78
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