Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-9, the first Spacelab mission, carrying Spacelab Long Module 1 with six crew including the first ESA astronaut (Ulf Merbold) for ten days of microgravity research.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 13.4 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 28 November 1983, 16:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1983-116
- Launches in 1983
- 118th of 129
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