Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-40, the Spacelab Life Sciences-1 mission dedicated to studying how the human body and other organisms adapt to microgravity. It was the first shuttle flight with three women crew members.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 13.7 T
- Flight
- 41st
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 5 June 1991, 13:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1991-040
- Launches in 1991
- 41st of 91
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